THE TAXI CAB UNION was not
prepared to comment today on the new
cab rates announced by government or its
decision to institute a public bus service
between Nassau International Airport and
the central downtown area.
"I will say this much however,'
commented union president Richard
Moss. "Nothing has changed since last
April when we made an official statement
on the question of bus service at the
airport."
At that time the Taxi Cab Union made
it patently clear that it would not tolerate
such a service. Drivers have stated
publicly they will blockade the airport
approaches if any attempt was made to
introduce buses.

Following the rise in fuel prices, the
taxi union last September submitted
proposals to government for an average
50 per cent increase in the cost of the
various cab services.
Today's official statement froin
Transport Minister George A. Smith ga e
approval to a 30 per cent increase over
the present fare to become effective
Monday. March 11.
At the same time the Minister said that
"in giving consideration to the new rates.
the government has decided that it will
institute or cause to be instituted at the
earliest opportunity, a public bus service
between the Nassau International Airport
and the central downtown area."

It Anally
T e h e rs g where I was attending an IPIconference. B o
It was a brief note signed Max -
Sa child". fortunate I was to be travelling around the
which humble and great old man, confined to a wheel chair, attend
So f s [ passage from the cradle to That letter came to me in the evening m.
book shop in the hotel the following l
advanced in age. We are headlines stared at me from the rack: "Be
advanced in age. We are was 85. sib ilit
j in mind and body. But **********
the street struggling with all Later I heard from friends in London
WORKS MINISTER Simeon ha-. them to take one step after hisexit from this scene. Minister in his challenged thli \lm
lowe was today accused by and dimmed eyes ... I remind my On the Beaver's 85th birthday Lord T says that durirngthe Works to answer
hI Te~clhr :r:- of tr-;"ne 'jo)on w\e will reach that stage of .n__, .,; ,t B het 8 rth a. o ver I sy 7 eiatdtri. s ,th oi.s tor toIr i,
.d h. i i .l i l D' ... over 127 e orators u ion r th,

this last painful experience but we
:cision th.- is beyond our power.
ie laces _. r grandchildren, their
!nici'- .' 7.' vigour of youth, I
C' r~%. .re .. is for the easy
Co'..erenc. one level of life to
headteacher "e change.
Cay phoned in
genatorhad quto recapture the
-night before. td clear but the
"The Ministry od that is why I
officer who took 'Is ... with
immediately reported tni.,
the Ministry of Works "
In December, Mr. Archer
said. he visited South Andros
tnd was appalled to find that
r one h J d ;' . . ch ec k
the complaint. On his return he
personally spoke to officers in
the Ministry of Works and was
assured that the work would be
done in a fortnight.
"I was therefore surprised to
have a call from the teacher in
January informing me that the

Ui ner in sonou 111r at tLU iorIIUUI d It U I-I --C3r -
approached the Beaver was critically ill: n repaired 17 rebuilt
1lessw units insttilled .it a
it was feared he would be unable to atte ew unT ts installed 7 a
A few days before the function he,, i ju, ver, 2 7 record
his bedside. He would record a speech whe.n on' cotnsidurs that
from his vacant seat at the table. Bitit of 12 nc\\ listris of
speech. s tallest t)pe p isc is
He told the nurses to take the d:.000. t tlhc imlorce e\pe,'nsi,'
had decided to attend the dinner artver engine was i'stallled, 's
On the morning of the day fc' like' to I'' thil ..,ts- lile
Psi \ss'idi be i.'VI '- t t)L)
moved to a room at the Dorches e tde s, Archr d,
rhaps, Mr. ,\rch,'r jsked,
room adjoining the dining room.,, ,-, ;) q00 was the ,, ,t t
When the time for the din0 transportaticui and not ithe Lost
to take his arm. ti, r tfhi' of the work done. In anm case.
headte ,lowly fflingrove (ay, it this is thel type of advice the
if after waiting two months for Minister is getting from this
promised help, which did not unit, then the case emerges
come, if he tried to repair the even stronger that an
generator himself." investigation is needed."
Mr. Archer said that in This type of advice also
meetings with his colleagues in seriously dam ages the
the island, and during the credcibilily oif the Minlster's
holidays, he had learned tlht informants whto say that the
what happened at Mangrove teachers are responsible for the
Cay was typical of the service problems. Mr.. Acher added.
of the Ministry of Works. I he union president

benefit.
Wih is ; I', P ttIc
costing approt\iutate'
more than the List i
being installed in the
Islinds" Mr ArIchki
wan'ded to empit hat1.'/e
Lister engine had L .
provenii service, biit Il
cn! litie WSas 1'! I
(jtiantily iIi i lt 1i in ;!
Who owns thli pIl
chartered to take thll
of Works mii ni'iinainc C
the Family I la.idt..
SHIow 'Antt1; cithart
were niadc to the
Islands last year andc
,'l!oiunt sprnt on chart
I'he Cunion \vwold
\1r Archer s.icd,
available to the Minist
in tfoi ;;. ioin it
generators. ,and was
to discuss w1,ith himt
which a more sal
situation can be broug

Simeon Bowe hits back at generator complain

SAYING he would not sit
by and allow his staff to be
"unjustly accused." Works
Minister Simeon Bowe today
hit back at teacher union
complaints about lack of
service of teacher generators
in the out islands
And he extended a
"sincere promise" to union
president Leonard Archer to
enforce General Orders 104
which permits government to
withhold teachers' salaries to
pay "surcharge" fees for
damage or loss to government
property through fault or
neglect
I lie Teachers Union
Wednesday slammed the
Ministry of Works for failing
to mainta1 1 in teachers'
generators in the Out Islands.
saying it takes anywhere up
to six months. and in many
cases longer, for a Ministry of
Works unit to investigate the
coriplaint.

Charged the Minister:
"This Ministry is doing and is
being made to do more than
it should to keep (260)
generators operating. This job
could very easily be done if
there would be some
co-operation from teachers in
the family islands."
And he complained: "I
would like to point out at
this time. without calling
names (but will do so if
necessary), some of the things
that are done to cause some
of the trouble."
Among his list of
complaints were: teachers
allowing generators to run
dry of oil resulting in the
bearing, shaft and piston
being burned out: teachers
putting in oil in some cases
paint oil that they have
been instructed not to use;
some teachers, taking down
the machines and lacking the
knowledge to put them back

MR SIMEON BOWE
together again, and some
parts thereby getting lost; and
some teachers, he claimed,
using a piece of wood to hold
down the cut-off switch
thereby running down the
generator without oil and
causing malfunction.
"The union should try and
get these headteachers to
learn how to carry out simple
instructions, so that they may
get students to do the same,"
said Mr. Bowe.
And he charged that a
headteacher was expected to
be responsible and to show

some interest in Governmenet
property.
He also outlined sonie of
his department's difficulties.
"This Ministry is doing and
is being made to do more
than it should, to keep
generators operating. This job
could very easily be done if
there would be some
cooperation from teachers in
the islands.
"With the large number of
machines, 260, we only have
two people working on the
major repairs of them. One
on the Ministry's staff and
one contractor. In the islands
of Grand Bahama. Exuma.
Andros, Abaco, Cat Island.
Long Island and Eleuthera.
we have four contractors,
three part-time employees
and three permanent staff to
provide maintenance, minor
repairs and inspection of
generators.
"We are still in the process

oi finding additional
\\ho are qualified to
work," he said, "and
resident in the islands
to obtain the names
people through
sioners. district ec
officers and head tea
a:r have not been suc
Answering union
that it often took
months to get any
hrom the Ministry, M
charged. "I would
inform the union that
imotre than six months
teacher to report aft
lave tried to do
themselves and
damage the machines.
\nd replying to th
ol "mnismanagelme
funds" Mr. Bowe s
seems due to the "sl
don't care attitude
irresponsibility display
many ot the
complaining."

Self-help schemefor $300,000 high schc

By NICK KELLY

A Sl II II H I.I' S(CII MI to
build tilh first stage ot a
5 )t0,o0l0 high school for the
M1ajier oc (Cay constituency
\.ais a:nit ouneiiidt c today by the
district's reprcseIntative, Home
Aflairs Minister Darrell Rolle.
At a news conference this
moving MrS. Rolle said plans
were to raise 5100,000 by June
1 '75 so that construction
could bcgin. Initially the
school 'will house about 150
students with an ultimate goal
of 800 drawn from all parts of

"On(e of the central school's
special features will be
vocational training in

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agriculture, having regard to
the development of Andros as
a prime agricultural area." Mr.
Rolle said.
"I believe we will have more
success in that field with the
youngsters from the family
islands because they have not
been exposed to the same
influences that militate against
the Nassau youngster, the
Minister observed.
iHe said young people in
Nassau were more reluctant to
accept farming as a worthwhile
way of earning a living.
Mr. Rolle was hopeful that
given the necessary funds, the
school would he able to open
its doors before December
1975.
The site has not yet been
decided, but the facility will be
operated by the Ministry of
Education and will offer
science and arts subjects, in
addition to agricultural
training.
Mr. Rolle emphasized that
the school was the project of
the people of Andros, assisted
by other Bahamians sympa-
Ihetic to the scheme.

"For many years now,. and
even today, the majority of our
fellow countrynlen have
believed that the government
must provide everything that
government has an endless
supply of money anl that.
therefore government nii.' lhe
the provider of everything at
any time in every place.
"Indeed," he added, "This
attitude has become so
prevalent that it has to a large
extent dictated even the
attitudes of members of
Parliament seeking to get
projects started in their
constituenciess"
He was happy however that
a recent trend had developed
whereby members of
Parliament are becoming
involved in constituency
projects that could be acheived
with the cooperation of the
constituents and the
representative.
"It is our view that
although this traditional
approach is a natural process of
dependence on government
nevertheless we feel that it
tends to militate against

successful community pro lects
which can be achieved through
the cooperation and drivc of
the Inember of PIarliamentl and
his constituents."
Mr. Rolle also felt that this
approach would inspire a sense
of achievement and encourage
a sense of reliance on the part
of every member of the
conimmunity.
"It is also with this spirit
and drive that we can make a
better contribution in building
a better Andros and better
Bahamas for all of us," he said.
It was in this spirit that he
and his constituents fornmu-
lated and instituted a self-help
scheme for the constituency.
The first part of the scheme
had already been achieved with
the introduction of a school
bus with capacity for 24
children.
The bus was commissioned
last Sunday in Fresh Creek and
has been completely financed
by funds raised at events held
in the constituency and with
the help of the Minister and
other Androsians living in

Its main pufltIpose is to
piuol de tr.insportati in loi thie
,hiii en tromn love Ill to
I iesh Creek School and those
tromll Main-o-War Sounld to
lhwenr Sounld School
distance of seven nules and it (
miles rcspecti\ely roundtitp
"The ac'comiplishlmenlt ot
tins phase itn so short a tllme
has proven the self reliance of
out people and their desire to
'look up and move on" Mr.
Rolle observed.
The next phase will be
construction of the ('Central
Andros High School
To spearhead the fund-
raising drive. two committees
have heen appointed, one in
Nassau and the other at
A nd ros.
The Nassau committee will
be chaired by Senator Leander
Minnis with co-chairman
Arnold Cargill, both of whom
are "sons of Andros "
Mr. Rolle will act as
honorary chairman of the
committee Other members ol
the Nassau committee are
Rodney Bain, secretary to

Yesterday Mr. Smith met with Mr.
Moss and a union delegation to inform
them of the new rates and government's
intention to permit operation of a public
bus service between the airport and
downtown Nassau.
The bus service proposal was first
mentioned in the months prior to
independence when then Transport
Minister Darrell Rolle met with members
of the Taxi Union and outlined some of
the transportation problems facing the
country.
He also made certain proposals, one of
them allegedly being a bus service. Cab
unionists, already angry over the manner
in which the Emerald Green Bus Company
is being administered by
certain union officials, are
threatening to take action
similar to that in 1958 when
they clashed with tour
company operators.
At that time the taxi men
successfully closed down the
airport. totally wiping out
anticipated profits from the
year's winter season.
MORE DIFFICULT
T he taxi men claim that
with tour cars. livery cars,
Emerald Green, hacks and
private individuals hiring out
their private cars, it is
sister of becoming more and more
three difficult to earn a living.
mpblic's Complicating the picture is
the rising cost of fuel, the
r cllglne increased price of a cab
\ S500 licence and high cost ot
r engine repairs. The union had
aImily sought an increase from 60
said tie" cents to t$ for the first
.at tih q carter m il e. The
~ordl of government-approved rate is
l' Better 90 cents.
Imkiuwn Following are the e new ca
Islands. rates for New Providence and
ne that is Grand Bahama:
itinistrN FI-or the c.onsei .lincr ,f up to
crew to iand including two pasNsengers: or
the first fifth f la mil.' 90c.. for
er flights each additional fifth it a mile ...
Family v or the conveyance of each
the total additional passenger over two. cor
ers. the complete Journev ... t1.o0
ie happy. Il'r tle conlveyance of a child
to make under three ears iof age it
accompanied hv a passenger ...
ter all the Nil.
1as on For tile use of a cab fir one
prepared hour. where the cab is hired hy
liniie: Iin the case of a cab
waS by adapted fr tie carriage ol f, or
tistfactory te\wer passetgers....$S .O0 In thie
ht about. case of ain\ other cab 10 00
Ior ever additional half hour
or part thereoft. III the caseI ol'
Si.nh adl:pted for the carriage ot
S e t or t'\\..r passengers 4.0t
> In theit casc otf an\ uther utl .
5 0oo
\W\here a cal is required (i wait
I people ater hbin hired (except t\.hcn
(do this iir,.- d \ tine) for e ,er \ inlute
who are ,r par thiercot ... I Oc
I r lhi carriage of noit nire
SEfforts thtan t\o pieces of hand b:ggiae
of such :la d siall bIags iand pack:ites
Comniis- arrwd hN passenger . Nil
education I or 'rs\ additional pit jcV
ichers so I, aihohve rates relating to
cessful." iouirl hiire ,ll noi t tioile into
olnr t' iti l .]ille' I
charges I, the I amilN Islands pt
over six Oiiin arhour Island i.ii
action ',p.inish \\elli the Iare tor tlhe
r. Bowe ,one ,Inue o' up to .I d
liiucltuii vi th\o passengers o or the
like to irt ti\ic ,ies would hc. 2,1 2s 1 'er
it takes rnile I or iacli additional I llt o
s for the nit h there would hb' an exvra
ter the\ chirl. ,ltOc LI r cach addition
1I.i el' e' r iov 'r t\\io There \\iill
repairs ,1 ll,' trI' ttl i rgoe! t i' 1 0ii (o r
ftirther til. uni pltie iourl'n
"In Huiin i. Harlbour Island :ind
e charge ,iinli ellsls. because iol ti
i i sh,,nrt distances involved. Ith ratils
aid this 1 ,r ilt coneuaiic of up to
ackness, and including tusw pas ii ters,
le and 'lr"m"m :i" gl" enl pliant Il aitlucr
2 b 1] 25r per person
lvecd hby I r the c:onv anice of eac
teachers ,ilJililoiial pit ssengcr o\ser e t\\r ior
tie tint plete o'uri \ .. S i 1.Oi

A PANtFL of judges this
morning dismissed the appeal
of Jamaican Frrol tlayden,
sentenced to death last
Septenimer for the Januars 31,
1973, shooting of Itmile Pierre,
26. a Haitian service station
attendant.
The three judges, Sir Michael
Hogan, l'agct Bourke and
(lifford Inniss also dismissed
inl appeal made by Haitian
national, Willie John,
sentenced to he hanged for the
March tiiurder of Wilson
(harles. last year.
Willie John, 28. a husboy at
a Freeport hotel was convicted
and sentenced in the Suprenme
Court on August 29, last year.
Hearings into the appeals of
Wendell "Red" Bturrows, 25
and Phillip "Polka IHumcs, 20,
who were convicted in the
Supreme Court on November
10. last year, wece adjourned
to Monday.
The two men, sentenced to
be hanged for the murder of
F.N.M. supporter Raymond
Barry Major, 25, at Perpall
Iract, during the 1972 election
campaign, are represented by
attoireys David Bethel and
I.wrenLc P. Trencrhard.

university

misfits
BRIDI)(;GTOWN, BAR-
BAIOS (AP) Describing the
University of the West Indies as
onei of the most reactionary
institutions to be devised in the
post war years, Prime Minister
Flrrol Barrow charged here it
swas turningg out a lot of
initsits "
He was speaking in
Parliament on a resolution
which provides for a reduction
of the time to be spent abroad
by officers enjoying leave
passages.
The resolution, which was
passed, reduces the various
periods granted by two weeks.
Voting that the University
staff had been demanding
pre-requisities yearly and
turning out misfits, Barrow
said this form of academia was
fata! to clear thinking. The
trouble is that we in the
Caribbean are suffering from
the residual effects of
colonialism." Barrow added.
A government back-bencher,
Evely Greaves suggested that if
leave passages were to be
granted the recipients should be
offered the equivalent in
government bonds or those
who did go should be on
attachment to learn "what's
going in their countries.

Alcoholism 'larger

problem than drugs'

Till recent international
drug abuse conference here
concluded that "alcoholism
ge nerally rep;escnts a
considerably larger socio-
medical problem in the region
at present than that of drug
dependence."
And in a series of resolutions
adopted hy the International
Conference on Strategies for
the Prevention of Drug Abuse
in Developing countries held at
the Sonesta Beach Ilotel, the
delegates felt it necessary that
p rogra mnles on both
governmental and tvlunt ar
levels should be developed "'as
the. are inadequate at this
time "
The conlercnce said that
w h e e \ c r possible aC
pa r l i I n ta ry coninittee
should be set up toI dctil
speifiallly with the problems
of alcohol and drtug
dc 'pendence with hI
"co-0option of a 11ullt-diiS iplin-
ed tCeina of professionals."
It stressed that t hes
committees should heIt in close
co-operation through a.;
Inlter- arhibean (Commissi onS)
on1 a Icohol tinld dtrug

dependence "which should be
set up as soon as possible."
And the conference resolved
that io enable the follow-up of
the work of the present
conference and to develop
further activities and possible
strategies in the field of
prevention, treatment and
rehabilitation ;is well as
possible other fields relevant to
the elimination of these
socio-timedlcal piroblenis which
represc:nt serla i(s danger to
societies, a I it ure meeting
should he clionvenitd in the
ei'glton thinhn the next two
sa\ rs"
(Copies of the group reports
and all documentation on the
x\k liking papers submitted at
the conference. which closed
',1n 'Iuesda,. would be attached
with the resolutions and
submitted to the Caribbean
I economic Community Health
Secretariat for consideration
and possible action.
The three-day international
conference was sponsored by
the World Federation for
1en tal tHealth, the
International Council on
Alcohol and Addictions and
the Baihamas governmentt .

Actors to attend fair

"'4 IDAY in Fairyland" is the
theme of the fair which is to
kick ofi' the F-ree National
M o e I n It 1 5 mI alssi V
fundraising progrTamlme ifor
S1974.
I he t.iir. which is under the
chairmanship of Mrs. Nvonne
Isaalcs, will be helCd on
Saturday. March 30 at Windsor
Park
The I\NM Women, drawn
from every constituency in
New Providence. have been
meeting for several weeks to
plan the event which promises
to have several unusual
attractions.
Several of the tamily island
constituencies are also
contributing and it is expected
that Freeport will have stalls of
its own at the Fair
In keeoine with the
"Fairyland" theme, stalls will
be decorated to reflect some
Mother Goose character or
nursery rhyme character.
For example, the Supper
booth will be named and
decorated for Tommy Tucker
who "sang for his Supper",
"Mary, Mary quite contrary"
will be the theme for the Plants
Stall, and so on.
Mrs. Isaacs said that she was
delighted at the progress being
made and with the
wholehearted cooperation
shown by the different
constituencies.
"However," she added,
"additional volunteer workers

will be most welcome and they
may take part by contacting
Mr. George Ingraham at FNM
Headquarters.
"Several well-known movie
characters will be special guests
at the fair and details about
these will be released later."
said Mrs. Isaacs.

Truck driver

killed

A RIDGELAND Park
truck driver was killed late
Thursday afternoon when his
truck crashed into a utility
pole on John F. Kennedy
Drive.

Rudolph Balfour was
injured in the 5:30 p.m.
accident and rushed to
hospital, but was pronounced
dead on arrival.

Balfour's death is the third
traffic fatality for New
Providence this year.

Reporters and photographers
Waited in vain at Los Angeles
international airport early
today for the scheduled
arrival from London of
SMarjorie Wallace, dethroned as
Miss World after a
controversial three-month
reign.
Miss Wallace reportedly
disembarked without
entering the terminal and was
driven away in a car parked
on the tarmac.
The newsmen had hoped
to interview Miss Wallace on
her dismissal as Miss World in
London because the
organizers of the contest felt
she had failed to maintain "a
first-class public image."
During her brief reign, Miss
Wallace, reportedly the
steady girlfriend of
millionaire racing driver Peter
Revaon, was featured in
newspaper stories that
recounted her relationships
with a number of British
personalities, including
former soccer star George
Best and singer Tom Jones.

DETROIT A lock
attendant at a fashion;
says he amassed a
worth at least $400
getting in on some go
tips from his wealthy
Louie Boldrini. 57,
attended to the need
rich at the exclusive
Athletic Club since 1'
been tight-lipped at
wealth until last wee
robbers got to a saf
home.
Boldrini at first said
was empty. Later. he
it contained $400,000
and securities and S1
cash.
"I happened to gi

RFD .O

Ci TR E I L L
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AND

SYRIANS

CLASH

ISRAELIS and Syrians
clashed with tanks, cannons
and missiles today on the tense
Golan Heights front amid
Israeli reports that Damascus is
gearing up for a new round of
fighting.
A Syrian military com-
munique said the hostilities
began with a 90-minute tank
and artillery duel in the central
sector of the front
That clash was followed by a
25-minute exchange in the
same area, the Syrians
reported.
rhe Syrians fired a number
of antitank missiles at an Israeli
patrol in the Tel Marai central
sector and Israeli forces
returned the fire. the Tel Aviv
military command said.
The Damascus communique
claimed two Israeli artillery
batteries, an "engineering unit"
probably a crawler tractor
and Israeli military vehicles
were hit But neither side
reported casualites.
Algiers radio and the
semiofficial Algierian news-
paper El Moujahid said
meanwhile that Arab
oil-producing countries will
meet March 13 in Tripoli.
Libya. to consider lifting their
oil embargo against the United
States,
An official of the Egyptian
Oil Ministry in Cairo said
Thursday night, however, that
the ministers have yet to reach
agreement on when and where

to hold their meeting.
The Israeli newspaper Maariv
said that Washington has
warned Tel Aviv of a possible
Syrian intention to renew
hostilities along the Golan
front.
The Syrian army is in a
"high state of readiness" and
armed with many ground-
to-ground missiles, the paper
added.
The first Israeli reports of a
Syrian buildup were treated
with some scepticism in Israel.
Some observers felt the
government used the scare as a
device to settle a bothersome
government crisis. But reports
from the front Thursday
indicated Israeli troops on the
line were taking the fears
seriously.
Israel's new minister of
information, Simon Peres.
was quoted telling the paper
that the "same informants that
warned us on the eve of the
Yom Kippur war" had tipped
Israel off to the new Syrian
move.
It was not clear if Peres
meant that Washington warned
Israel on both these occasions.
"After the lesson we
learned from the Yom Kippur
war we take everything very
seriously now and all question
marks are put aside." Peres was
quoted as saying. (AP)

Incongruous

relations
U.S. SECRETARY of State
Henry Kissinger said there is an
incongruity in America's
relations with Europe that
must be resolved.
tie firmly refused, however,
to link the presence of U.S.
troops in Europe to agreements
on oil and other economic
problems with the Europeans.
(AP)

;er room some good stocks," he told
able club suspicious police.
fortune "uFveryone is beginning to
,000 by think l'm a crook and it's
od stock bothering my healh," he said.
clientele. "Everything is declared."
who has Boldrini, who makes about
s of the $150 a week plus tips as an
Detroit attendant at the club's bowling
937. had alley, said he has more money
bout his in banks. ie would not sa\
k, when what his total worth is.
e in his Police have charged five men
with the robber\ at Boldrini's
d the sate home
admitted Boldrini's itfe, Naomi, told
in bondspolice three en wearing ski
0,000 in masks and n lon stockings over
their heads broke into the
et in on house Thursday night, bound
and gagged her, and threatened
her with a knife When she
refused to open the safe, they
carted it outside to a car and
drove away.
Authorities said theN
recovered $5,000 in cash butt
none of the securities (AP)

Meeting jelled after Vesco cash delivery, court told

NEW YORK A U.S. government
witness testified yesterday that hours
after financier Robert Vesco made a
$200,000 cash contribution to
President Nixon's re-election
campaign, then-Attorney General John
Mitchell set up a "very productive"
meeting between Vesco's lawyer and
the head of the Securities and
Exchange Commission (SEC).
Vesco aide Harry Sears testified in
United States district court that the

Oil states

want

pro

- Arab

pledge

LONDON Key Arab
oil-producing states may soon
warn Prime Minister Harold
Wilson that Britain may be
listed as "an unfriendly
country" unless his new
Labour government demon-
strates a pro-Arab attitude.
Ranking Labour politicians
and Mideastern diplomats,
who disclosed this Thursday,
said an informal advance
message was sent Wilson at
the weekend before the
Labour leader was installed as
Prime Minister.
And it took the form of a
letter from an ex-ministerial
colleague who wrote it in
consultation with a leading
Mideastern Ambassador here.
Since the Mideast war last
fall Arab oil-producers have
classified foreign countries as
friendly, neutral or
unfriendly according to
their stance in the
Arab-Israeli conflict for
purposes of regulating their
oil supplies.
Friendly countreis have
been able to count on stable
deliveries. Those branded
unfriendly have had their
supplies either limited or
cutoff as in the case of
Holland and the United
States.
The Wilson government has
yet to define in precise detail
its broad approach to the
problems of the Mideast.
In general, it seems
the Wilson administration will
pursue a p 'i'y of
even-handedness

meeting which Vesco had been trying
to arrange for months jelled quickly
once the cash was delivered to former
Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans,
who was then Nixon's re-election
finance chairman.
The jury of eight men and four
women and the packed courtroom
hung on Sears' every word as he
testified for a third day in the criminal
conspiracy trial of former Cabinet
members Mitchell and Stans.

- COMMON

MARKET

TAKES

NEW

BLOWS

BRUSSELS The Common
Market's precarious unity
suffered two severe new blows
when Britain demanded
cancellation of a bargaining
session on farm prices and
France broke EEC lub rules
by setting its own
milk producers.
The British move
the United Kingd
anti-market Labou
ment, was anticipate
French action was
surprise.
French Finance
Valery Giscard d'Est
the Union of Fren
Producers that the b
of their produce w
hiked by six perce
Monday pending a dec
EEC agricultural minis
price levels.
Under Common
rules France has no ri
make such a dec
unilaterally, and EEC offi
said outright that they w
"astonished."
In the midst of t
agricultrue minister
difficulties on agreeing new
farm prices, because of
political upheaval ir Bel'. .n
and Italy as well as Britain,
French farmers have been
demonstrating across the
country to press their
government to take action.
French Prime Minister Pierre
Messmer last month threatened
to block beef imports from
non-market countries. The EEC
gave him permission to do so

'Egypt wants oil

embargo lifted'

CAIRO Egypt has asked
Arab oil countries meeting here
Sunday to lift their
five-month-old embargo against
the United States, an Oil
Ministry official said.
Informed sources in Kuwait
said that rich Persian Gulf oil
sheikdom also is ready to drop
the embargo.
The ministers are gathering
here with the embargo at the
top of their agenda at
evotDt's invitation, officials
said. Their meeting originally
was scheduled for Tripoli
Libya.
The Egyptian Oil Ministry
official said it was switched to
Cairo because of lack of hotel
space in Tripoli. But there was
speculation in some quarters
that the change grew from
Libyan resistance to lifting the
embargo. Iraq and the
Palestinian guerilla organiz-
ations also are known to
oppose resumption of
U.S.-bound shipments.
President Anwar Sadat
proposed lifting the embargo in
return for Secretary of State
Henry Kissinger's help in

concluding an agreement to
disengage Egyptian and Israeli
troops along the Suez Canal
front, and for Kissinger's
efforts to arrange a similar
disengagement of Syrian and
Israeli troops on the Golan
Heights.
Resumption of shipments to
the United States would help
ease the gasoline shortage that
has resulted in long lines in
front of many American
service stations. Authorities say
the embargo is costing the
United States about 10 per
cent of its total daily needs.
President Nixon expressed
optimism at a White House
conference Wednesday night
that U.S. diplomacy in the
Middle East inevitably will
influence the Arabs to lift their
embargo.
But he declined to predict
outright that the Arabs will
decide Sunday to resume oil
shipments to the United States,
observing that such a
prediction from him might
"lead them to do otherwise."
There were reports that

WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON A telephone bomb threat
sent White House guards searching through the
executive mansion Thursday. The search failed
to turn up any bomb.
According to one member of the executive
protective service, an anonymous caller
telephoned the main White House switchboard
about midmorning and said a bomb had been
placed inside.
Members of the service searched not only

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Saudi Arabia and several
Persian Gulf states in addition
to Kuwait endorsed the
Egyptian call for an end to the
embargo.
But Saudi Arabia, the largest
Arab oil producer, has been in
the forefront of the campaign
to wield what the Arabs call
their "oil weapon" against
Israel. The devoutly Moslem
Saudi ruler, King Faisal, has in
past statements insisted that
Israel must pull out of all Arab
land captured in October and
in the 1967 war, particularly
Arab Jerusalem.
The embargo was imposed
after the October Middle East
war as a way to pressure
Washington away from support
of Israel.
The Arab oil countries also
cut off shipments to the
Netherlands, regarded along
with the United States as
particularly pro-Israeli.
They reduced over-all
production by about 15 per
cent in addition to the two
embargoes, spreading an oil
pinch across most of the world.

BOMB SCARE
the press area but other sections of the White
House, looking in closets and under desks and
asking, "seen any strange devices?"
The building was not evacuated, and
President Nixon's daily activities were not
interrupted.
A secret service spokesman confirmed that a
bomb threat had been received but would give
no details. (AP)

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In return for Vesco's contribution,
the government claims, Mitchell and
Stans sought to impede a fraud
investigation of Vesco's far-flung
corporate empire.
Despite the meeting with then-SEC
chairman William Casey and a number
of other high-level conclaves, three
months after the contribution Vesco
was discouraged over his legal battles
with the federal investigators and

ready to appeal to Stans for aid, Sears
said.
When he argued against such a
course of action, Sears testified, Vesco
exploded: "My God, I gave all that
money"'
Sears and Vesco were indicted in
the case along with Mitchell and Stans.
Vesco fled the country and Sears was
given immunity to testify for the
government.

Wilson freezes rents,

orders profit cuts

LONDON Britain's new
Labour government froze all
rents today and told
shopkeepers to cut their profits
as part of a drive to cut
skyrocketing inflation.
Environment Secretary
Anthony Crosland annou ced
that rents on all hiusinul

next week to balance higher
wholesale prices.

The meeting between the
commission and representatives
of leading food firms came as
the state-owned coal, steel and
electricity industries .vere
rated planning price
s of up to 60 pe. cent
wake of.the lC-week

Its "pessimistic" forecast
indicated 1 million
unemployed, a trade deficit of
$10.9 billion and 18 per cent
overall price increases.

Britain now has around
500,000 fully unemployed, not
counting those who were
temporarily laid off during the
three-day work week that ends
at midnight.

By I Ill Nt \ )DUPUCHt
In King .Lear Shakespeare left us this thought: When we are
born we cn' that wc are come to this great stage of fools.
And in his As }ou Like It the great hard traces the stages of
growth and development and the final decay of a man from the
cradle of the grave.
All the world's a stage.
And all the men and women merehl actors.,
They have their entrances and their exits,,
And each man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven stages.

The story opens with a mewlingg and puking infant" ... then
the "whining school boy" ... then the lover, "sighing like a
furnace" ... then a soldier, "full of strange oaths" ... then the
justice, "in fair round belly, full of wise saws and modern
instances" and "with eyes severe" ... the sixth stage shifts into
"the lean and slipper'd pantaloon", ... and, finally, second
childhood, "sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything "

It has been truly said "'once a man, twice a child".
These ate inescapable stages of life which humble and great
like, must expciience in their steady passage from the cradle to
the grave.

vMy wife mnd I are now both well advanced in age. We are
fortunate that we are still vigorous in mind and body. But
whenever I see a man or w oman on the street struggling with all
the will and physical power left to them to take one step after
another ... and with bowed head and dimmed eyes ... I remind my
wife that one day perhaps soon we will reach that stage of
physical decay.
We both wish to he spared this last painful experience but we
accept the fact that itis is a decision that is beyond our power.
And when w\e look into the laces of our grandchildren, their
eyes sparkling with the confidence and the vigour of youth, I
think how kind (:oa,! s expressed in nature .. is for the easy
stre, '1.; '. : 1 ... us to slip from one level of life to
I i !! being p uioitlls ci!scious of the change.
Sometimes I ,t quiei 3 and alone and try to recapture the
memories of In\ youth rlhe memories are full and clear but the
sense of feeling is gone, never to he recaptured. And that is why I
like to seeV oung people enjoying themselves ... with
responsibility, ofcourse ... because it happens only once.

"The dalip of an tsiin l." wrote W. S. Landor. "sink into the
leaves and prepare their for the necessity of their fall: and thus
Sinsensibly are we, as years close around us, detached from our
Stenacity of life by the gentle pressure of recorded sorrow."
And again Shakespeare:
.llust endure.
Their going Ihncce. even as their coming hither:
Ripeness is all.

I don't suppose many readers of this column are familiar with
the writing of Joseph Addison (172.'-17 10).
A nd. pleased th' A lmigh t' 's owners to perJi,rm.
Riles in the whirl-winl. and dloec-ts the storm.
Addison wrote twoi essays on life that I read over a half
century ago. They stick in ny n memory. I will record them both
briefly because they are worth remembering even though I will
deal with only o'. in this discussion.
In his first picture of life he sees the human family groaning
under the burdens and miseries of daily experience.
Addison tells how God in Ilis pity, sent an angel to earth with a
great mirror. lie then had all mankind pass in review before this
mirror which emphasized each man's secret fears and burdens.
The angel then instructed all those who had seen their fears
and faults magnified to cast them aside. They all did ... and it
made a great pile.
The angei their instructed each person to take from the pile the
burden lie would prefer to his own ... and each man went away
with a new burden of his own choosing.
A week later the angel returned to earth with his mirror and
went through the same procedure as on his first visit.
He then told the people to once again cast their burdens aside
... and then o, take front the pile again the one thing they felt
suited them most
They all did ... and when they went happily away they were all
carrying their original burden ... having learned that God gives to
each man only the burden lie is most suited to bear.
Addison's other story was "lihe Vision of Mirza". In this story
the highway of life is pictured as a great bridge, narrow at its
approaches, iwidc in the nuiddle and tapered off to a single
pathway onl thie farther shore.
This bridge links the beginiiiig of life with the final scene. A
roaring stream of water boils up under the bridge and sweeps into
eternity ... the bridge is spotted with trap doors which open on to
the rushing waters below.
The approach to the bridge is crowded with young men and

women eager to get their feet planted on the highway of life that
leads hopefully to the farther shore where a single star shines on a
land of fulfilhent.
As the crowd of teni and women step on the bridge trap doors
open and many disappear quickly from sight as they fall into the
surging waters below and are swept away to oblivion.
The line tiins in the broad middle of the bridge where there
are fewer trap doors but three equal ters of die way across the line
becomes thinner still. And it tapers off sharply as men continue
to fall through the trap doors, even as happened to Moses
within sight of the Promised Land.
Finally a single weary traveller reaches the path that leads to
the high goal on the far shore.
Then he, in his turn, is finally overtaken by Father Time ... and
he dies ... hopefully leaving behind footprints in the sands of time
that might help to light the way for a later weary traveller who
seeks the high goal of life.
In this connection Longfellow wrote:
Lires of great men all remind us
We cani make our lives sublime
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints in the sands of time.

Footprints, that perhaps another
Sailing 'er life s solemn main
A firlorn and shipwreck 'd brother.
Seeing shall take heart again.

Some great men are more fortunate than men in their final

passing. It has been well said that "nature is prodigal of her gifts".
Winston Churchill was the greatest man of this century and one
of the greats of all time but he had a tragic passing. In the end he
decayed into a mere vegetable, illustrating Shakespeare's most
tragic line ... "sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything".
In his book "Winston Churchill, the struggle for survival
1940-65", Churchill's doctor Lord Moran, traced his meteoric rise
to power and fame,... and his final decay. The decay started with
a slight stroke to the brain which Churchill himself noticed. The
debility spread until, in the end, he was reduced almost to a mere
vegetable.
His friends and admirers were heartbroken. They wished he
could have died on the field of battle with a smoking pistol in his
hand or in one of his most cherished memories when, as a young
man, he wielded a sabre in the last great cavalry charge in history.
Here was a man of stout heart and great mental capacity ... but
in the end his brain went into decay and he became no more than
a shuffling mountain of flesh.

My friend Lord Beaverbrook had a more fortunate passing. He
went as I would like to go.
The last time I saw him was in his flat in London. He was
confined to a wheel chair and his face was ashen. He didn't
complain but my wife and I could see that he was in great pain.
We knew when we left him that day that this would be our last
meeting on earth.
His last words to me were a lament ... almost a reprimand ...
when he chided me once again for not seizing power when the
chance came to me after my success in breaking down racial
discrimination in the colony in 1956, at a time when the coloured
people wanted a leader who would take revenge on their former
masters.
I could never make him understand that this was not my role
in life. I neither desired power nor the task of meeting the
demands of an embittered people.
The Beaver lived until the following summer. He retained his
faculties up to the end. He was dictating instructions almost with
his last breath. A letter to me must have been one of his last
efforts.
It was sent to me in Nassau. It finally reached me in Turkey
where I was attending an IPI conference.
It was a brief note signed Max in which he said how
fortunate 1 was to be travelling around the world. He was now an
old man, confined to a wheel chair, attended by a devoted wife.
That letter came to me in the evening mail. When I went to the
book shop in the hotel the following morning newspaper
headlines stared at me from the rack: "Beaverbrook Is Dead". He
was 85.

Later I heard from friends in London the glorious manner of
his exit from this scene.
On the Beaver's 85th birthday Lord Thomson of Fleet gave a
dinner in his honour at the Dorchester Hotel. As the time
approached the Beaver was critically ill. He was a dying man and
it was feared he would be unable to attend the dinner.
A few days before the function he had a machine brought to
his bedside. He would record a speech that could be played back
from his vacant seat at the table. But he was too ill to record a
speech.
He told the nurses to take the dictaphone away ... he said he
had decided to attend the dinner and make the speech there.
On the morning of the day for the dinner he had himself
moved to a room at the Dorchester. He sat in a wheel chair in a'
room adjoining the dining room.
When the time for the dinner arrived he called to his son, Max,
to take his arm. Summoning all the will power at his command he
rose slowly from the chair and, resting on his son's arm, he
walked the whole length of the large dining room to the place of
honour at the table.
He had his dinner and then rose to make one of the most
brilliant speeches of his career. It was to be his last public
appearance and he knew it.
In his speech he emphasized that he had served an
apprenticeship here on earth during which he hoped he had
learned lessons that would serve him well in the life beyond the
grave.
At the end of the dinner he took his son's arm and made a
grand exit from the banqueting hall.
He then went back home where the curtain quickly came down
on the life of a remarkable man.
God, what a glorious way for a man to take his exit from this
scene. How I envy him!

Now ... why did I write all this about the lives of individuals?
When I started this article I intended to write about the decay
of nations as seen in events now taking place in England. But my
mind took its own course and I simply recorded thoughts as they
flowed across my memory.
The same principle that applies to individuals is also true of
families and of nations.
In the case of a family a man or a woman sets a pattern
for his children to follow.
The great misfortune for the children of wealthy or famous
parents is that unless their parents take time to impress on
them that all they inherit is a good name but that each human
being in his or her own time must walk the bridge alone ...
they never get a firm grip on life.
In the Vision of Mirza only individuals not families
crossed to the far shore. But a good name gives a young person
entering on life an advantageous start. That's all.
It is impossible to bequeath fame to anyone. More than one
great man has been destroyed because he felt himself capable of
"creating greatness '.Mr. Pindling please note.
This caused the downfall of Napoleon Bonaparte. He thought
that every Bonaparte was a Napoleon. And so he made members
of his family rulers of lands he conquered. But there was only one
Napoleon in the Bonaparte family. His brothers and sisters were
people of mediocre calibre ... and so his great achievements
crumbled about his ears
Some of the greatest Marshals of France during the Napoleonic
era were men who had risen from the ranks.

A Marshal Ney had caught my father's imagination. As a child I
often heard him speak of the dashing courage of this great French
military leader.
But of all the dynasties established by Napoleon only one has
survived.
He made one of his Marshals, who had been a Sergeant in the
French army, the king of Sweden. I've forgotten his family name
but I do remember that he married a charming French girl,
daughter of a silk merchant. The present King of Sweden is
descended from this line started by a man who had been a
Sergeant in the French army but who had the capacity for great
achievement.

Tomorrow I will do the article about the decay of Britain
which we see daily unfolding before our eyes.

In one of my articles recently I referred to the earthquake that
swallowed up most of Port Royal, capital of Jamaica, that had
the reputation of being the wickedest city in this hemisphere.
I think I spoke of it as having taken place early in the last
century. For purposes of accuracy ... the date was 1692.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY
Fower in the crannied wall,
I pluck you out of the crannies.
I hold you here, root and all, in my hand,
Little flower but if I could understand,
What you are, root and all, and all in all,
I should know what God and man is. ROBERT LOUIS
STEVENSON.

Final '3 building figures show drop

Final '73 building figures show drop

ALTHOUGH more building
applications were approved in
the final quarter of last year
compared to 1972, the
estimated value of building
permits dropped by nearly
$3.5 million.
These figures were released
this week by the Ministry of
Works, who said that for New
Providence the total number of
applications approved during
the fourth quarter of 1973 was
737 compared with the figure
of 301 for the corresponding
period in 1972. 367 buildings
were approved in the private
sector of which 317 were for
housing, 50 for commercial
and industrial and a further
five for the public sector.
The estimated value of
building permits approved for
the fourth quarter of 1973 was
$6,639,161 compared with
$10,069,883 for the
corresponding period in 1972.
The estimated value of
buildings approved in the
private sector was $6,460,677
of which $5,295,748 was for
housing, $1,164,929 for
commercial and industrial and
a further $178,484 in the
public sector.
This compares with
B$4,896,605 for housing,
B$1,238,278 for commercial
and industrial and
B$3,935,000 in the public
sector in 1972.
For the fourth quarter of
1973 construction was started
on 107 buildings compared
with 109 the year before. 107
buildings were started in the
private sector of which 88 were
for housing, 19 for commercial
and industrial and in the public
sector, nil.
The estimated value of starts
for the fourth quarter of 1973
was B$2.835.226 compared
with B$3,222,244 for 1972.
B$2,835,266 was in the private
sector of which B$2,231,756
was for housing, B$603,470
was for commercial and
industrial and none in the
public sector.
This compares with
B$2,010,204 for housing,
B$313,040 for commercial and
industrial and BS899,500 in
the public sector for the
corresponding period of 1972.
For the fourth quarter of
1973 construction was
completed on 85 buildings

compared with 49 for the
corresponding period of 1972.
There were 75 in housing, 10
in respect of commercial and
industrial, but none in the
public sector.
The estimated value of
completions for the fourth
quarter of 1973 was
B$3,410,743 compared with
B$3,849,342 the year before.
B$3.410,743 was in the private
sector of which B$2,727.333
was for housing, B$683,410
was for commercial and
industrial and in the public
sector, nil.
This compares with
B$1.339.822 for housing,
B$2,435,520 for commercial
and industrial and B$74,000 in
the public sector for the
corresponding period of 1972.
IN FREEPORT
In respect of Freeport the
number of applications
approved for the fourth
quarter of 1973 was 14
compared with 16 for the
corresponding period of 1972.
The number of starts during
the fourth quarter of 1973 was
14 compared with 16 and the
estimated value of buildings
started for the fourth quarter
was B$58,030 compared with
B$3 1 5,592 for the
corresponding period of 1972.
The number of buildings
completed for the fourth
quarter of 1973 was 8
MUSIC FESTIVAL
EVENING CONCERT
The Bahamas Music Festival
will present its final concerts
on Saturday, March 16.
The junior concert will begin
at 3:30 p.m. The evening
concert at 8.30 p.m.
Both Concerts will be held
in the Auditorium of the R. M.
Bailey Senior High School.
Robinson Road.
Tickets are available at The
Cultural Affairs Division,
Ministry of Education and
Culture, East Shirley Street.
COOKOUT SATURDAY
THIE Immigration
Department is holding a
cookoul on Saturday on the
beach east of Sonesta from
10.30 a.m. onwards. The
cookout is being held in aid
of the South Andros high
school and also to buy an
industrial sewing machine for
the high school at Cat Island.

compared with 9 for 1972, and
their estimated value
B$212,600 compared with
B$1,031,827 for 1972.
In the Family Islands -
(Excluding Freeport) the total
number of applications
approved for all Islands was 72
with an estimated value of

B$1,769,306 for the fourth
quarter of 1973.
The total number of
buildings started was 53 with
an estimated value of
B$26,823,140 and tfe total
number of buildings completed
was 17 with an estimated value
of B$2,943,262 for the fourth
quarter of 1973.

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ELECTRIC. FOOT & HAND OPERATED

Cor. Christie & Dowdeswell Sts. Phone 2-1197

File A Float Plan

1. Tell someone, a
friend or relative,
where you are going.
2. Stay to that area.
3. Make sure they have a
complete description
of your boat; size,
colours, power, and
number of people
aboard.
4. Set a time when you
will be back.

5. Instruct them that if
you become overdue
to call BASRA
2-3877 and give Duty
Officer all information.
information.
6. If overdue, anid' fyou
do get in on your
own, call BASRA so
we won't waste time
and money looking
for you.

Above: Dotty housecleans with a
beautiful decorator-coloured (yellow and
yellow and white or green and green and
white) vacuum cleaner. This upright model
comes complete with hose attachments and
has an easy dial for high/low suction and a
selector for shag, high, average, outdoor and
indoor carpets. This retails for $113.00
Left: Dotty, saleslady and designer at
Geoffrey Jones & Co. Ltd. examines the
beautiful General Electric
refrigerator-freezer with the added features
on the outside of the door of a dispenser for
chilled water, ice cubes and crushed ice.
Top: Joey with household appliances.
un ,.. C IX.11:1 I V V -rf I,, fII .

U

wno was sent out to the
Bahamas by General Electric in
the States to service their
appliances which in those early
days were only sold by The
General Hardware Company.
In 1961 Mr. Nord retired
and Mr. Geoffrey Jones bought
out his business.
In November 1969 Geoffrey
Jones & Co. Ltd. moved to
their present location and went
into the retailing, as well as the
servicing, of General Electric
appliances.
And, if you go to the store
today it is very doubtful that
you'll find Mr. Jones there.
Instead, he'll be out on the
road with his maintenance
team servicing their ippliianci,
All the service personnel
who work under the guidance
of Mr. Jones, have been trained
bh General Electric in the
States. Mr. Jones' daughter and
store manageress, Mrs. Mike
(Joey) Lothian told me that
they "invest a lot of money in
servicing (training men). parts
and tools". Members of staff
go monthly to General Electric
service schools in the States to
keep them bang up to date ont
the latest servicing techniques
of the latest appliances.
There appears to be a
definite pattern to the success
of business in Nassau and those
with the 'Boss-on -the-spot'
appear to thrive. In the case of
Geoffrey Jones & Co. Ltd the
Boss is on the spot in the
servicing aspect of the business.
Yet back at the store
business is buzzing under the
capable sister team of Mrs.
Joey Lothian nee Jones and
Mrs. Dotty Rae nee Jones.
And, those who doubt the
combination of feminine
beauty with appliance
know-how are in for a pleasant
surprise.
Joie has been in the
business since she left
Government High School nine
years ago and knows the
appliance business inside out.
Joey might be described as the
Executive and Administrative
half of the sister partnership.
She does all the business
transactions, paper work and
ordering and cataloguing of
parts. She gives credit to the
gu\s for teaching her to
catalogue parts in the early
days but now the likelihood is
that she knows what part is
needed before they do.
Joey has worked down the
cataloguing of parts to a fine
art. She uses microfilm which
is simpler. less bulky and
therefore speedy
In fact she knows so much
about parts and servicing that
Joe' is planning to service
appliances herself.
Elder sister. Dotty, another
beauty, has a distinctive flair
for design and may be
described as the designer and
saleslady half of the team.
Actually Dotty is a trained
nurse who qualified at
Radcliffe Infirmary. Oxford,
England. She worked at the
Princess Maaret Hospital for
a year and after she married

she went in with her father.
She holds a diploma from
the G.E. Sales College in the
United States at which time
she was the only woman in the
class.
Dotty says that she finds
that in running a home herself
(she has two children
Richard aged 5 and baby
Spatchas aged 2) is "helpful for
putting together a kitchen".
In fact, Dotty has a natural
flair for designing. She tries to
find out exactly what the
customer really wants and then
makes suggestions. She has put
together several kitchens at
Lyford Cay for which her
knowledge of G.E. appliances,
her practical experience in
running a home and her inborn
knack of home designing
admirably qualify her.
It would be impossible
within the limitations of this
space to even list, no matter
describe, the merchandise for
sale at Geoffrey Jones & Co.
Ltd. They have an excellent
selection of fridges, freezers,
washing machines, dryers and
other major appliances in
lovely decorator colours or
that good old standby, white.
There are minor appliances
galore, electric toothbrushes,
water-piks, hair dryers and
other hair related appliances,
coffee percolators, mixers,
blenders, irons, toasters,
electric kettles and can openers
in decorator colours or
stainless steel.
The lovely refrigerator-freez-
er pictured on this page has a
dispenser for chilled water, ice
cubes and crushed ice. For
those who are skeptical of
"gimmicks" the service men
say that this fridge is easier to
fix than a regular one.
In any case Geoffrey Jones
& Co. Ltd. sell filters which
eliminate a lot of the problems
which we experience with our
often problematical water. This
comes ilovely decorator
colours and retails for 51,300
(but think of the electricity
you'll save that would be
consumed with the continual
opening of the conventional
freezer door for chilled water
and ice.
Lighting fixtures and lamps
are also a big thing at G.J.'s .
Joey claims that they stock
"the largest selection of
fluorescent light fixtures" in
Nassau. Besides the standard
models they also sell power
groove and high output
fixtures.
Geoffrey Jones' also carries
mercury and quartz lamps.
These are used a lot
industrially for playing fields
and parking lots they have a
longer life-hour and are
therefore more economical in
the end.
Geoffrey Jones also sells
light bulbs to hotels here at a
more economical price than
importing them themselves
certainly a good tip for hotels
in the Bahamas who have in a
recent survey and report been
advised to cut down on some
of their excessive expenditures.

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TIlIS WI.K'S featured
hand has an interesting history.
It was dealt initially in an
other r wise long- forgotten
Camrose Irophy match many
years ago. It was the sensation
of the match, and indeed the
sensation of the year among
those people who take such

matters seriously. Then, about
twelve years afterwards, it was
brought out of retirement, and
included in a national charity
duplicate tournament, where it
again produced some startling
results.
Finally, I myself dusted it

off once more, and during a
semi-par contest, stuck it. like
a time-bomb, in thie hands of a
number of unsuspecting
players, mainly to see what
would happen. It's that kind of
a deal. Ilere is the full hand.
with North-South vulnerable,

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In its debut, the hand
created something of a stir. At
one table, North and East both
passed. South bid 1 Heart, and
over West's Spade interference,
North bounced straight to 4
llearts. and that was that.
In the other room, North
not only opened the bidding,
but continued to bid like there
was no tomorrow:
N 1 S W
I C pass 1 H dble
4 1 51) dble 5 S
pass pass dble pass
6 I 6 S dble pass
7 11 pass pass pass
South failed to make his
contract by one trick, thus
bringing down the contumely
of the international critics on
his head, as well as engineering
a huge swing in the scores. It
was pointed out from many
sides that the Grand Slam is
makeable, even on the good
lead of the 6 of Hearts, which
West actually made in the
match.
I'ventually the tumult and
the shouting died, and the
hand lay dormant in the files,
until the committee who got
together a collection of
"famous hands of the past" for
their charity competition
decided to revive it. No records
were kept, because throughout
the country many hundreds of
tables were in play, and the
local results were all that
mattered. But it is a safe bet
that there were many sacrifices
of 6 Spades by West, which at
a likely cost of 500 would be a
good save against the 1,430
which North-South would gain
by bidding and making 6
llearts.
Then, finally, I brought the
hand back to life in Nassau,
where many years ago I ran a
kind of par contest at the old
Royal Victoria Hotel, as an
experiment. Points were
awarded for both bidding and
play, and on this hand the top
award for North-South was
either finishing in 6 Hearts, or

doubling East-West in 6
Spades. There was a lesser
award to North-South for
going on to 7 Hearts.
However, the playing awards
were much higher than those
for bidding, and here the South
players -- no matter what their
final contract was had to
play in the directed contract of
7 Hearts, with the directed lead
of the 6 of Hearts coming from
West, just as in the original
match. Now put yourself in the
South seat, with all 52 cards on
view, and make all thirteen
tricks. How do you go about
it?
Basically, there appear to be
two approaches: one is to ruff
your losing Spades in dummy,
while the other is to set the
Clubs suit for discards. The
former line, attempted by the
original South player in the
Camrose match, leaves you
with a losing Diamond at the
end, even though you take the
Diamond finesse during the
play. There-is no resting place
for the 2 of Diamonds, and the
contract has to fail.
The superior line, pointed
out many years ago with
righteous scorn by the critics,
is to set up dummy's Clubs.
They play goes like this: take
the opening lead with one of
dummy's top trumps, and
immediately ruff a small Club
in hand. Back to dummy with
a Spade ruff, and ruff another
small Club. Repeat one more
time, and you are then left
with:
none
A 8
4
A 109 8

AJ 54
10

Q
none
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none

AKJ 2
none
At this stage, you are in
your own hand, so you play
your Queen of trumps to the
Ace, drawing West's last trump,
run the good Clubs, and finish
by making the Ace of
Diamonds.
And how many of the local
players do you think made
their Grand Slam out of a
maximum of 15? No fewer
than 13, most of whom
*complained to me afterwards
that the hand was too easy!
There's progress for you!
R.C.

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NEW PRESIDENT OF BURNS HOUSE LIMITED --Arthur McZier, left, Chairman of
the Board and President of General Bahamian Companies Limited, congratulates Bradley
B. Roberts upon his appointment as President of Burns House Limited, a major subsidiary
of GBC. The appointment becomes effective on April I.

Bradley Roberts is new

president of Burns House

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September, 1970 he was
elected to the Board of
Directors of Burns House and
appointed Vice-President ini
charge of Finance. lie is
currently President of the
Bahamas Liquor Importers
Association.
Commenting on his new
assignment, Mr. Roberts said:
"It is extremely satisfying to
me, naturally, to be named
President of the firm I joined
as a relatively junior employee
less than 13 years ago. I believe
that during those years I have
been able to acquire a
thorough understanding and
knowledge of the operation of
Burns House and I look
forward to the challenge of
becoming its chief executive
officer with confidence and
great enthusiasm.
Subsidiaries of Burns House
include Bahamas Blenders,
Robertson and Symonette
(Wines and Spirits) Limited.
The Cellars Wineshop Limited
and Thompson Brothers (Wines
and Spirits) Limited.
In addition to his business
commitments. Mr. Roberts is
deeply involved in community
affairs. He is the immediate
past President of the Rotary
Club of West Nassau: treasurer
of the Bahamas Amateur
Basketball Association and of
the Bahamas Federation of
Amateur Sports: a charter
member of the First Bahamas
Branch of Toastmasters
International: a member of the
Board of Governors of St.
Augustine's College and of the
Bahamas Chamber of
Commerce. He is in addition a
director of several local
companies and served as a
member of the Prices
Commission,
Mr. Roberts is married to

HEE A AD&HR

PM's wife helps out
EVERYONE is giving their full support to the Bahamas
Red Cross in helping to raise funds for this charity. Mrs.
Marguerite Pindling, wife of Prime Minister, the Hon.
Lynden O. Pindling (left) gave a few hours of her time
Monday morning to sell tickets for the annual Grand Raffle
to be drawn on April 5. First prize is a 1974 bodge Monaco
car donated by Mr. Alexis Nihon. Selling tickets with Mrs.
Pindling at one of the three ticket sales locations on Bay
Street was Mrs. Trixie Hanna, a member of the Raffle
Committee. Buying tickets are hopeful winners of one of
the many prizes. Raffle tickets may also be purchased at
the main Post Office and from Committee members Mrs.
Franklyn Wilson is chairman of the Committee. Photo.
I. OR KI-:ZO OCKHART

NOTED BIOCHEMIST
DIES IN NASHVILLE
DR HAROLD West, Sr.,
father of Mrs. Edna Minaya,
died in Nashville, Tenn.
Tues(tay.
Dr. and Mrs. West are well
known in the Bahamas. Mrs.
Minaya was, until last August,
assistant director of Education
for Curriculum with the
Ministry of Education.
She returned to Nashville to
be with her aging and ill
parents.
In addition to Mrs. Minaya,
Dr. West is survived by his
wife. a son Dr. Harold West Jr.,
-in orthopaedic surgeon in Iowa
and two grandchildren.
A noted biochemist, Dr.
West, Sr. is credited with
numerous discoveries in his
field. As head of the
Department of Biochemistry at
Meharry Medical College, and
later as President of the
College. Dr. West had a number
of the Bahamas's leading
doctors among his students.

One of the best known of
these is Dr. Cleveland Eneas.
Sr.
Funeral services will be held
in Nashville Saturday.

in Nashville Saturday.

the former Hartlyn Mackey
and the couple have four
children.

Mr. McZier also announced
that from April 1 the head
office of General Bahamian
Companies will be moved from
its present location in the Trust
Corporation of the Bahamas
Building. West Bay Street, to
the Bahamas Blenders building
on John F. Kennedy Drive. Mr.
McZier explained that the
move would serve to centralize
his control of the Group
companies.

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BRADLEY B. ROBERTS,
30-year-old Bahamian
accountant, will assume the
post of President of Burns
House Limited on April 1. The
announcement of his
promotion was made today by
Arthur McZier, Chairman of
the Board of Directors and
President of General Bahamian
Companies Limited of which
Burns House is a leading
subsidiary.
Mr. Roberts succeeds Robert
H. Symonette whose present
contract with the company
ends on March 31.
"The decision to elevate Mr.
Roberts to the presidency of
Burns House," Mr. McZier
stated, "is in keeping with the
programme I have initiated of
promoting talented and
ambitious young Bahamians,
from within the existing
organizations, to the top
positions in the General
Bahamian Companies group. 1
am especially pleased to have a
person of Mr. Roberts's expert
knowledge of the business and
keen interest in the well-being
of the firm to be placed in this
highly responsible position."
Born in Nassau. Mr. Roberts
was educated at St. Francis
Xavier's and St. Augustine's
College and attended evening
classes at Government High
School and Aquinas College.
Before joining Burns House in
1962 as assistant accountant,
he had worked for brief
periods at Caribbean Motors
and Bahamas Telecommuni-
cations Corporation's stores
department.
Mr. Roberts' ability and
initiative have been rewarded
by steady promotion. He
became the firm's chief
accountant, then assistant
treasurer and soon afterwards
was appointed treasurer. In

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DEAR ABBY: I was really surprised when Joyce asked
me to be maid of honor for her wedding. We've been
classmates for years, but go with different kids. I can't
understand why she chose me. She has many much closer
friends. I accepted because I didn't know how to refuse, but
now I'm sorry, and I'd like to get out of it.
I've already paid Joyce's mom for the dress, but it
hasn't been altered. My mom and I gave a shower for
Joyce. We invited her mom, sisters, aunts and friends, and
they all acted like they were slumming. They openly snub-
bed my mom. I had a lump in my throat the whole time.
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to talk to at the reception. At the last minute, should I say
I have an illness in the family, and can't go? Or just tell
them the truth? DILEMMA D.

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DEAR ABBY: I am a widow in my 70s and I need
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I'd get four different answers.
A few months ago I saw in the obituary column where
the wife of an old boy friend of mine died, so I waited for
what I thought was a reasonable length of time and then I
wrote him a note and gave him my phone number and said
it would be nice to talk to him some time.
He called me up and we talked for a long time. In the

conversation he said he'd like to see me again, but he
hoped I wouldn't expect any "kid stuff" in the love-making
department. I rather got the Idea that be was trying to tell
me that he was too old for that sort of thing. Well, I'm not,
and if that sl what he meant I don't want to waste my time
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entirely automatically,
replacing the oil burning
light which mariners have
observed and made use of
since 1859, when proceeding
through the Providence
Northwest Channel.
The new light automatically
switches itself on and off
through a photocell system.
With an array of 12 lamps
taking power from a special
battery complex, it requires
maintenance and attention
at six-month periods only.
The equipment, manu-
factured by A.G.A. (UK)
Ltd., is one of the most
modern navigational light
systems developed in recent
years.
Great Isaac is the first
lighthouse in the world to
have this equipment
installed.
The cost of the installation has
been borne by the U.K.
Department of Trade &
Industry, the actual
installation work being
undertaken by the senior
technical staff of the
Bahamas Lighthouse Service
under the general direction
of Mr. R. Bryenton, an
A.G.A. engineer.
This is the first of five
lighthouse stations in the
Bahamas to be automated
under agreements reached
between the U.K.
Department of Trade and
Industry and the Bahamas
Government at the time of
Independence. Work will
begin on the second station
at Cay Lobos in April, and it
is hoped to complete all five
stations by mid-1975.
Automation of these lights will
not only provide modern
equipment with, in some
cases, greater light range, but
should also show a
considerable financial saving
in the operation of the
Bahamas Lighthouse Service
in future years. The Service
is operated by the Ministry
of Transport.
Although Great Isaac
Lighthouse is automatic, the
Lightkeepers will remain on
the station for one year.
During this period, the
performance will be watched
closely and certain records
kept over that period.

Eat and Grow Younger

That youthful feeling begins

with good protein breakfast

By LELORD KORDEL
Number Twenty-Two of a Series
For years you've been assured that "life begins at
forty." And so it does-if your middle years are pro-
tected from the serious ailments that often sneak in with
the 40th birthday. But I doubt if you've given much
thought to the fact that youth begins at breakfast.

I consider breakfast the most
important meal of the day. For
me it is always a high-protein
meal, with little or no pure
starch of any kind. There's a
solid nutritional basis for this.
My breakfast menu some-
times causes comment among
my fellow breakfasters when-
ever I am away from home. I
remember one morning in the
dining room of a Pittsburgh ho-
tel when I ordered sliced or-
anges, two broiled lamb chops,
and a cube of cheese for my
breakfast. The waitress repeat-
ed the order as though I had
ordered hummingbird tongues.
CANNIBAL'S BREAKFAST!
But the weary-looking couple
at the table next to mine evi-
dently didn't agree with my
choice of breakfast. For, as the
waitress placed the platter of
nicely browned chops in front of
me, I heard the woman murmur
to her husband, "Disgusting! A
regular cannibal's breakfast."
And then she and her husband
smugly downed their own all-
starch breakfast of a patented
cereal, sweet roll and coffee.
Yet I'll wager that around 11
o'clock that morning I had by
far the more energetic body,
and the best-controlled nerves
of the three. And all because I
had the foresight to supply my
mind and body with the type of
food-high-protein-that assures
the most nourishent for mus
cles, nerves and brain cells.
Although you may not have
realized it, your disposition -
your "mood" for the day is
largely determined by the kind
of breakfast you eat. A high-
starch breakfast starts you out
for the day with your appetite
temporarily appeased, yet with
your digestive tract laboring un-
der the burden of a lot of gooey

food that probably will have you
belching before you leave the
table.
A light breakfast of fruit
juice, toast and coffee is not
sufficient nourishment to carry
the hungry body (remember,
you've not eaten for nearly 12
hours when you sit down to the
breakfast table) through a
morning's work with full vigor
and efficiency. The word break-
fast means exactly that-
"break the fast."
FOODS FOR BREAKFAST
Most high-protein foods are
rich in thiamine, particularly
egg yolk, lean beef and lamb.
A splendid energy breakfast is
one consisting of fruit (whole or
sliced citrus fruits, not the juice
alone, melon, berries, pineapple
or other fresh or sun-dried
fruits), scrambled eggs to which
dry skim milk powder and
grated cheese have been added
for flavor and extra protein,
served with a small portion of
hot whole grain mush cooked in
liquid milk made from powder-
ed non-fat milk and served with
honey.

This business of skipping
breakfast entirely is an extreme-
ly foolish habit for anyone, but
more particularly so for the
person who wants to encourage
his body to remain youthful,
strong and vigorous. Many wom-
en-men, too-entertain t h e
false idea that by skipping
breakfast they will "lose
weight."
This reminds me of the near-
ing-40 wife of a friend of mine.
A devotee of the "I must diet"
cult, she religiously skips her
breakfast every morning, mo-
mentarily quieting her rumbling
stomach with several cups of
strong black coffee and a ciga-
ret or two.

But along about 10 o'clock she
is forced to succumb to those
persistent hunger pangs which
were not appeased by the black-
c o f f e e-and-cigaret breakfast.
One or two white-bread sand-
wiches are washed down, either
by a soft drink from the refrig-
erator or by more coffee, and

topped off by a wedge of pie
or a slice of cake left over from
a previous meal.
She reconciles herself to the
number of calories in this high-
starch snack with the thought
that she "saved a lot of calor-
ies" by not eating breakfast.
I need not explain that this
hap-hazard dieter does not lose
weight.
If you can afford meat only
once a day, I would be inclined
to advise you to enjoy this splen-
did high-protein food at break-
fast-a leisurely breakfast that
you've given yourself tim e
enough to eat in comfort by
arising a little earlier.
EAT FRESH FRUIT
Eat all the fresh fruit you
want at breakfast, preferably
the whole fruit. Fruit is a pleas-
ant food with which to begin
any meal, and is an excellent
way of preparing the stomach
for the other food to follow.
If you like your morning cup of
coffee or tea sweetened, for a
real energy beverage try honey
instead of white sugar.
But whatever fruit, beverage,
or high-protein dish you choose
for breakfast, no pure-starch
foods. No white-bread toast, no
sweet rolls, no devitalized cer-
eals.
Now about lunch and dinner.
My handy "Better Eating Plan"
will help in proper selection of
these meals. You may have a
copy with my compliments by
sending a self-addressed, stamp-
ed envelope to: Lelord Kordel,
care of This Newspaper.

The time to begin dealing
knockout punches to a prema-
ture old age is at breakfast!
Condensed from th book "Eat and
Grow Younge" by Lelord Kordel. All
right* reervd. Dtributed by Specialty
Ftur. Syndicate.
Next: How to slow-down the
aging process and live a lot
longer than yo thought posi-
ble.

BOMB BLAST
BELFAST A huge
terrorist bomb planted in a
hijacked van blasted the
headquarters of a British army
unit in Belfast city centre.
All windows in the building.
formerly the Grand Central
Hotel, were blown out by the
explosion. Many nearby shops
and offices were also damaged
but nobody was hurt.
A Telephone caller claiming
to represent the Irish
Republican Army's provisional
wing told a local newspaper of

'S ARMY HQ
the bomb, saying it contained
1,000 pounds of explosives.
This would have made it the
largest ever set off in Northern
Ireland's four and a half years
of sectarian violence.
But the army sad
eyewitness accounts of the
damage suwnested It actually
contained fewer explosive.
Before the blast the army
evacuated the building, used as
the headquarters of the Fire'
Regiment, Royal Hoth
Artillery.

NOTICE
NOTICE is hereby given that PATRICIA DOROTHY
ANNE LOVE of Village Road, Nassau is applying to the
Minister responsible for Nationality and Citizenship, for
registration as a citizen of The Bahamas, and that any
person who knows any reason why registration should not
be granted should send a written and signed statement of
the facts within twenty-eight days from the 1st day of
March 1974, to The Minister responsible for Nationality
and Citizenship, Ministry of Home Affairs, P. O. Box
N-3002, Nassau.

NOTICE
NOTICE is hereby given that JOHN. STANLEY
EARNSHAW LOVE of Village Road, Nassau is applying to
the Minister responsible for Nationality and Citizenship, for
registration as a citizen of The Bahamas, and that any
person who knows any reason why registration should not
be granted should send a written and signed statement of
the facts within twenty-eight days from the 1st day of
March 1974, to The Minister responsible for Nationality
and Citizenship, Ministry of Home Affairs, P. O. Box
N-3002, Nassau.

NOTICE
NOTICE is hereby given that CHERYL ANN WILSON of P.
0. Box N394 Nassau, Bahamas, Is applying to the Minister
responsible for Nationality and Citizenship, for registration
as a citizen of The Bahamas, and that any person who
knows any reason why registration should not be granted
should send a written and signed statement of the facts
within twenty-eight days from the 1st day of March. 1974
to The Minister responsible for Nationality and Citizenship,
Ministry of Home Affairs, P. O. Box N-3002, Nassau.

NOTICE
NOTICE Is hereby given that KEITH CROSSLEY
HAYWOOD of Eastern Road, Nassau Is applying to the
Minister responsible for Nationality and Citizenship, for
registration as a citizen of The Bahamas, and that any
person who knows any reason why registration should not
be granted should send a written and signed statement of
the facts within twentvyeight days from the 1st day of
March 1974 to The Minister responsible for Nationality and
Citizenship, Ministry of Home Affairs, P. O. Box N-3002,
Nassau.

NOTICE

COMMONWEALTH OF THE BAHAMAS 1974
SUPREME COURT No. 138
Equity Side
IN THE MATTER OF FAIRBORN
CORPORATION LIMITED

AND

IN THE MATTER 'OF THE COMPANIES
ACT (CHAPTER 184)

ADVERTISEMENT OF PETITION

Notice is hereby given that a Petition for the
winding up of the above-named Company by the
Supreme Court of The Bahamas was on the 22nd
day of February, 1974 presented to the Court by
Shirley Oakes Butler of "Jacaranda", Parliament
Street in the City of Nassau in the Island of New
Providence, Bahama Islands and by Oakes Holding
Company, Inc., a company incorporated under the
laws of the Republic of Panama and having its
principal place of business at Gresham House, 29
Charlotte Street in the said City of Nassau
creditors of the said Company. And that the said
Petition is directed to be heard before the
Honourable Mr. Justice Maxwell J. Thompson,
sitting at the Supreme Court in the said City of
Nassau on the 20th day of March, 1974 at 10.00
o'clock in the forenoon; and any creditors or
contributory of the said Company desirous to
oppose the making of an Order for winding up of
the said Company under the above Act should
appear at the time of hearing by himself or his.
counsel for that purpose; and a copy of the.
Petition will be furnished to any creditor or
contributory of the said Company requiring the-
same by the undersigned on payment of the;
regulated charge for the same.

ns~p~s~~. ~ sel~ i--- p cs-- -
CLINT WALKER star of many westerns, explains to Lelord
Kordel that he has followed the "Eat and Grow Younger"
way of living for many years.
DID r irSMPMLFFIT
CROSSWORD A R SE
PUZZLE A ILE
I V #j AKc 7V 0 099

NOTE: Any person who intends to appear on the
hearing of the said Petition must serve on or send.
by post to the above-named Paton, Toothe & Co.
notice in writing of his intention so to do. The4
notice must state the name and address of the'
person, or, if a firm, the name and address of thel
firm, and must be signed by the person or firm, or3
by his or their Attorney (if any) and must be:
served, or if posted must be sent by post, in
sufficient time to reach the above-named not later
than five o'clock in the afternoon on Monday the-
18th day of March, 1974.

CHOICE OF THREE IN
NASSAU EAST. Fully
furnished three and four
bedroom homes $37.000 to
$47,000.
A SLEEPER ON VILLAGE
ROAD. Listen to this. Large
corner lot, 125 x 240. with 4
bedroom home and 1 bedroom
apartment. Private garden,
many fruit trees. Suitable for
large family, nursery school,
apartment site. Finarncing
available. The price is
unbelievably low.
SANS SOUCI, CAREFREE
SINDEED! Single family or
'duplex lots in San Sauci on
exclusive Gumbo Limbo Lane.

BEST IN BLAIR'. Two large
lots, each 100 x 150. One, only
$8,000. Buy before owner
changes mind.

These apartments are
completely furnished with
walled-in lawn and fruit trees.
Buildings are all of concrete
block. Originally priced at
$100,000. A BARGAIN for
$75,000 or nearest offer for
cash. Mortgage available for
one half over a period of five
years
For appointment to view
telephone 32109.
All apartments are now leased
for one year p iding October 1.
1974.

AN ESTATE Out west with
312 feet of SANDY BEACH
four bedrooms four baths,
spacious house, with garages,
with five bedrooms on second
floor. Grounds superbly
landscaped -- good condition.
See is to appreciate.

LAKEFRONT 3 bedrooms 3
baths, plus one complete
contained bedroom and bath,
sitting and kitchen. Large area
for playroom. Gorgeous views
of lake, has dock,
kingsize pool, over acre of
fruited grounds laden with
citrus. Tastefully furnished,
equipped for high class
entertaining ideal outdoor
living large patios all this
for only $215,000.00. See at
moment's notice.
DIAL THE ACTION
REALTORS DAMIANDS
REALTY 22033, 22305,
41197 Night.

C13794

FOR SALE
CENTREVILLE 4 lots
(60,000 sq. ft.) including
quality built building with
three units rentable. Ideal for a
Church, Piofessional Building,
Offices, Apartments etc. valued
$179,000.00. Gwner will sell
for $150.000.00.
MARLBOROUGH STREET
WEST opposite British
Colonial, three properties. One
as low as $100,000.00 other
two relatively cheap. Good
location for tourist trade, or
INVESTMENT. Invest in high
class properties to beat
inflation.
ARCADE BUILDING
opposite Malcolms on Bay
Street- lowest price available
on main street. See anytime.

FOR SALE
NASSAU EAST 3 bedrooms 2
baths, furnished. All this for
$36,000.00.

SOUTHEAST WINTON 100
foot on Water for as low as
$22,500 00. See anytime. Live
like a King on the waters edge.
TWYNAM AVENUE house
11' storeys, furnished, enclosed
grounds. Only $32,000.00.
CENTREVILLE HILLTOP
gorgeous views swimming
pool, patio frort and rear.
Main house four bedrooms
with 2-unit apartments. All
rented. Good income. Only
$150,000.00.
CITY PROPERTY Ideal for
business. Well maintained
grounds, immediate
occupancy. Only $110,000.00.
Spacious grounds.

IN MEMORIAL
C13818
In loving memory of our dear
Mother and Grandmother, Mrs.
Annie Elizabeth Taylor, who
departed this life March 8,
1965.
Gone but not forgotten.
It is the voice of Jesus that I
hear.
His are the hands stretch'd out.
to draw me near,
And this the blood that can for
all atone,
And set me foultless there,
Before the Throne.
Sadly missed by two sons, Mr.
John H-. Taylor, Mr. Lewis V.
Taylor, three daughters, Pearl
Mildred Naomi Taylor, twelve
grand children, nine great
grand, one sister Miss Caroline
Price, and other relatives.

C13829

In Memory of the late Shirley
Thompson. Departed this life
8th March, 1973.
Soorn we'll meet again our
loved ones.
And we'll take them by the
hand,
Soon we'll press them to our
bosom,
Over in the Promised Land,
Then we'll be at home forever,
Throughout all eternity.
What a Blessed morning that
Eternal morn will be.

Left to morn her mother, Mrs.
Beaulah Fox three children,
four sisters, two brothers, four
aunts, five uncles and a host of
relatives and friend;

C13802
ANYONE with a lot,a house, a
car, a boat, or other
merchandise they wish to
auction is requested to call
27612 days or 42856 nights.
For information regarding
auctions.
C. W SANDS
Public Auctioner.

C13726
CAREER OPPORTUNITY
Finance and Mortgage
company in search of 2 male
Bahamians 21 years old and
over to be trained for future
managerial posts. Apply Adv.
C13726, c/o The Tribune, P.
O. Box N-3207, Nassau.

I INTERCONTINENTAL
HOTELS ARE pleased to tell
you that during the next two
years we will be operating four
hotels in Jamaica. In Kingston,
Montego Bay, Port Henderson
and Ocho Rios. If you are a
Jamaican citizen, a pro-
fessional in the below listed
Hotel and Service Specialties,
and are planning on returning
to Jamaica to live, we would be
very happy to hear from you.
Here is your chance to join the
largest international hotel
chain in the world.
Executive Assistant Manager
Front Office Manager
Executive Housekeeper
Chief Engineer
Executive Chef
Sous Chef
Food and Beverage Manager
Assistant Food and Beverage
Manager
Accountant
Laundry Manager
Cost Controller
Maitre d'

C13792
FOOD AND Beverage Director
for 535 Rooms Resort
Property. Must have three to
five years previous experience
as Food & Beverage Director.
Please apply in person with
references to Holiday Inn
Paradise Island, Felix
Musgrove, Director of
Personnel.

C13812
SERVICE ADVISOR AND
TRAiNING OFFICER.
Required by expanding
automobile distributor. The
person required should have
the highest qualifications in all
phases of automobile repair
and administration. With at
least 25 years experience in the
trade with 10 years in a
supervisory capacity,
culminating as a Service
Manager. Must have the ability
to institute meaningful training
programs for all grades of
service personnel and apply
efficient workshop procedures
ensuring quality work. Only
persons with first class
references will be considered.
Salary by negotiation. Apply in
writing with full resume and
copies of references to
Managing Director, Nassau
Motor Company, P. O. Box
N8165.

C6737
DOCK FOREMAN
(MAINTENANCE) (2) -
Requires experience as
carpenter, sea-wright. Seaman
experience to enable fill in as
relief coxswain on pilot boat.
Must maintain dock fenders,
boats and buildings in harbour
area. Must assist in docking and
be able to take charge of
maintenance and cleaning
gangs.
DOCK SUPERINTENDENT
Extensive experience
required in port operations,
communications, security,
harbour traffic, docking and
use of meteorological and
oceanographic instruments.
Merchant marine or navy
experience or equivalent
required. Rotating shifts and
night work involved.

UNDERGROUND
CABLEMAN Underground
cable experience required.
Must be able to assist in cable
installation and splicing and in
maintenance of equipment
used in conjunction with
underground transmission and
distribution. Should be
qualified to do splicing
unassisted as may be necessary.
Cables involved have insulation
for up to 15,000 volts,
paper/lead, Snugrite, etc.
SUPERINTENDENT
(TRANSMISSION &
DISTRIBUTION) Must be
thoroughly experienced in
electric power T & D
Construction and Maintenance
from 69,000 volt lines through
distribution voltage circuits.
Requires full knowledge of
overhead power line equipment
such as transformers, switches,
capacitors, etc. and proven
ability to supervise line crews,
including live line maintenance.
Must have understanding of
underground distribution and
street lighting.
ADMINISTRATIVE
ASSISTANT (LEGAL) Must
be able to assume
responsibility for preparing
licences, conveyances,
mortgages and leases.
Responsible for completeness
of documents, including
survey, financial and
engineering details. Reviews
completed documents and
arranges for review by parties
involved. Must arrange
recording of documents with
Government and to notify
Government of pertinent
cancellations. Must know legal
and governmental
requirements.
Apply to: Personnel
Department, Grand Bahama
Port Authority, Limited, P. O.
Box F-2666 or 30C Kipling
Building, Freeport, Grand
Bahama.

"There must be something we don't know about why
the boss told him to clean out his desk."

he giribtbntw

SCARROLL RIGHTER'S

from the Carroll Righter Institute
X GENERAL TENDENCIES: The morning brings
you a poor communication which could be very
disturbing, but you are able to handle it very effectively By
being conscientious you are able to turn a problem into an
asset. Be more cooperative
ARIES (Mar. 21 to Apr. 19) A partner does not understand
your ideas in the morning, but later all works out fine Interest
in new situation adds to present prestige.
TAURUS (Apr. 20 to May 20) You can accomplish a great
deal if you are more cooperative with those around you Visit
good friends Show you are a person of worth.
GEMINI (May 21 to June 21) You may find it difficult to
put your ideas across early in the day. Engage in recreational
activities in afternoon. Relax tonight
MOON CHILDREN (June 22 to July 21) Morning is
difficult to come to a good understanding with kin, but
evening is just the opposite Use caution and get right results
LEO (July 22 to Aug. 21) Use extreme care in travel today
Buy only what is necessary and forget all those luxuries Show
mate more affection Relax at home tonight.
VIRGO (Aug. 22 to Sept 22) Don't spend money foolishly
today. Listen to what an adviser has to suggest for adding to
your present efficiency. Show you have wisdom
LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) You can accomplish a great
deal today if you take care of personal duties early in the day
Make new contacts at social affairs tonight
SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) Morning disappoints, but
later all turns in the other direction and you can obtain the
data you need. Rest can relieve any tension.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 to Dec. 21) Get together with
good friends and plan the pleasures you mutually enjoy Listen
to what a good friend says about the future.
CAPRICORN (Dec 22 to Jan 20) You have civic work to
attend to but don't give it up because there are obstacles in
your way. Discuss important matter with friend
AQUARIUS (Jan 21 to Feb 19) Step out of that dull
routine and plan to engage in activities you really enjoy
Experts can give the advice and backing you need
PISCES (Feb. 20 to Mar. 20) Your intuition is off early in
the day. Loved one may not be responsive until late in the
day. Don't take chances of any kind-
IF YOUR CHILD IS BORN TODAY he or she will show
a great desire for learning at a very early age You would be
wise to give the finest training possible, as well as moral and
religious teaching, since the power to absorb here is great Any
profession which requires a very cooperative manner with
others is fine. Sports are a natural here.
"The Stars impel, they do not compel," What you make of
your life is largely up to YOU!

Winning

Bridge
by VICTOR MOLLO
As competitive bridge grows
daily more complicated-at least
for some players-so questions of
ethics arise with increasing
frequency. When, and for how
long, may a player hesitate or
"trance," n bridge parlance ?
The Revue Francaise de
Bridge has introduced a special
feature in which two well-known
tournament directors deal with
thorny problems. This was one
of the questions put to them :
West East
75 A AK 8 4 2
v K 10 8 6 Q 9 7 4
0 A Q 109 2
SA85 4 K 9 7
North leads the 06 against
West's 3NT. South contributes
the (3 and West's 010 wins.
The d6 is led to dummy's VQ,
and, after an appreciable hesi-
tation, South plays the V5.
Declarer continues with another
heart and assuming that South
has the VA-why else did he
hesitate ?-goes up with the QK.
North produces the VA.
Accused of hesitating im-
properly, South explained that
he was torn between two con-
flicting desires-not to play the
Q8, which might suggest interest
in spades, and the (5, in case it
indicated a preference for clubs.
He was equally averse to both
black suits.
The directors held that, since
South didn't have the VA, he
.ud nothing to think about. He
was at fault. This didn't mean
however, that West would bt
made a beneficiary willy-nilly.
His natural play would be to
play South for the OJ. If North
had VAJ(x), declarer would
still lose two hearts.
There's a moral in this story.
If people played more quickly,
they would enjoy the game a
great deal better-even if they
missed on occasion some obscure
suit signal.

words of
roar letters
or more can
you make
from the
0 A letters shown
here? In
maktla a
word. each
letter may
be once
ony Bach
word must contain the large
letter, and there must be at
least one eight-letter word In the
list. No plurals; no foreign words
no proper names. TODAY'S
TARGET: 25 words, good;
32 words, vert good; 41 words,
excellent. Solution tomorrow.
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION:
EMPURPLE lemur lamp lumper
lure mule mare peepal plum
plume plump plumper pale
palp pulper pump pure pearl
purple relume rlae rump
rumple upper.

Rupert and th, Jolly Holly-31

In delight and excitement Rupert first unwraps
all his gifts, then no sooner is he dressed
than there comes a knock at the front door.
The caler is Edward Trunk with a piece of
JlUy Holly pinned to his cap. "Merry
Christmas, Rupert I" he booms. "I say, do
you always leave your boots on the door-
step ?" Ha, ha I No, I put them there for a

reason," laughs Rupert. "And see, there's
no paint on them now! The Gomnies must
have cleaned it off during the night." Paint ?
Gomnies? Hey, is this a joke?" demands
Edward. So he has to be told what happened
when Rupert met the Nutwood Gnomes.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

HISTORY will be made at
the Hobby Horse Race track
in tomorrow's fifth race when
nine top class horses will run
in the first ever "open entry'
race in the Prime Minister's
Cup race.
Racing Secretary and
handicapper David Strachan
said this morning: 'This is the
filt: year that an open entry
race has been introduced at
the track. It simply means
that any class of horse can
enter the race and there will
be no handicapping of
horses."
Strachan, who in his first
year as secretary and
handicapper has gained a
reputation for organizing
exciting races with 12 photo
finish races at the track this
season, said that the
introduction of the open
entry race was the first of
many innovations which he
hoped to introduce at the
track.
Favorite to win tomnor-
row's Prime Minister's ('tip
race is Loli Pop. ridden bI>
defending champion jockey

Hi OBBY t ttorse race
linelupi for tunloirow
I IRSI RAtt I 5 i urionits
It l dails dOubl.
I Dia.inmond
3 I iquidator
4 1 jkit.a
5 it last

track

and current leading jockey\
Gary Bain.
Loli Pop is one of the four
Class A horses entered in the
open entry race. This season
she has won four of five races
run with Gary Bain at hci
reins.
The other three Class \
horses in the race are. I),i
Like Dat, Desparid,. and
Count Zorich. The other fitc
horses. Wicked (,al. Mliss
Advantage. Wolf tHunter.
Nobody's Business arnd
[:lusive Now are tall Class tI
horses.
Winner of last year's Prirmi
Minister's Cup race. Huraml
Shoran ridden b v Staii
McNeil will not be rtunnii
tomorrow. Horat: Slioranii .,is
also voted the top lionl (o
1973 last season.
Racing Co ll mission
Chairman Franklyn Wilsin
w ill present former raciii.
commission chairman. Wen/e!l
Nicholls with a plaque for hi,
services to horse r:icing
before the start ot the P- N
race.

English Cup in 1964.
In 1965 West Ilam won the vruropean ('ip
of ('up winners. The final was at Wembley and
Moore again walked tip the red carpeted ranip
to collect the cup.
TIhen in 1966 came the greatest triumph of
all. Fngland won the World Cup. After the 4-2
victory over West Germlany in the final at
Wenmley Moore again led his men up the
familiar path to the royal box.
lie remained England's captain until last
year. Then his shining image began to be
dimnunied.
Against Poland at Katowic/ in the World
('Cp qualifications, Moore made a tragic
mistake and gave away a goal. Poland won that
game 2-0 and went on to quality for the finals.
England failed to qualify for the first time.
Moor didn't play in the return leg against
Poland at Wemibley.
last September Derby (County offered
100.000 pounds for Moore. West lami turned
it down. But his value has fallen since.
West lHam secretary I'ddie (Chapman said
"The club will expect a transfer fee for Bobbl
but it \will not he a big one." IAP

Wembley Stadium will be
the scene of the cup final, the
traditional closing showpiece
,f ihe I-nglish season, May 4.
Btistol were fighting to get
Geolf Merrick. captain and key
defender, fit after a thigh
niuir. Manager Alan Dicks
saiid thait because cof the doubt
over Merrick he will not name

the team until an hour before
the kick-off.
Liverpool have a powerful
battery of goal scorers Kevin
Keegani, Steve Heighway. John
'Toshack aid Phil Ioersinma
Bristol could be under heavy
pressure Ist as Illhe wserec
early on in both graes air.iist
l eeds.

Watch out for Queen's

II: YISTI RI)AY'S high
schIol invitational relay lmeet
1i ,111 indication of w lihat toi
Sxpecl iIn the annual
inter-scholastic tiack and field
meeti then Qiueen's College and
C (C Sweeting High are the
sqtr.rf to look out for.
Of eight events entered.
Qiueen's placed first in one.
s..' ,ond iin four andt third in

Sw\etling Ilighi in their seven
events collected three firsts.
,ine second and three thirds.
Of thie seniioir hys long
distance races, it was evident
that Aquinas ('Colleg had the
best eamrs. they won the 4 x
,S00 a.nd took second in the
miedle\ .
Theii final place was
.ltTibuted to the strong
iuining of anchor Imian Prince
I pturni who started his leg ot

(Ehf (Xrtbunr
Friday. March 8,1974
The
world
tonight
Reporters ind photographers
wailed in vain al Los Angeles
international airport early
today for the scheduled
arrival from London of
Marjorie Wallace, dethroned as
Miss World after a
controversial three-month
reign.
Miss Wallace reportedly
disembarked without
entering the terminal and was
driven away in a car parked
on the tarmac.
The newsmen had hoped
o interview Miss Wallace on
her dismissal as Miss World in
London because the
organizers of the contest felt
he had failed to maintain "a
first class public image."
During her brief reign. Miss
Wallace, reportedly the
steady girlfriend of
millionaire racing driver Peter
Revson, was featured in
newspaper stories that
recounted her relationships
with a number of British
personalities. including
former soccer star George
eat and singer Tom Jones.
ISRAELIS
AND
SYRIANS
CLASH
MIN IMAX
Athens 43 54 clear
Rome 41 SS variable
Paris 36 46 cloudy
London 37 43 cloudy
Berlin 32 37 cloud*
Amsterdam 2 41 overcast
Brussels 34 43 clear
Madrid 39 59 clear
Moscow IS 32 clear
Stockholm 2S 32 overcast
New York 48 70 clear
San francisco* 45 50 cloudy
Los Angeles 48 57 rain
Chfcato 39 46 cloudy
Miami 72 82 clear
Tokyo 43 48 cloudy
Hong Kong 63 64 overcast
Honolulu 70 84 cleai
Toronto 39 54 clear
Ma 73 97 cloudy
Lisbon 52 63 clear
ISR \l I is and Syrians
clashed with tanks, cannons
and missiles today on the tense
Golan Heights front amid
Israeli reports that Damascus is
gearing up for a new round of
fighting
A Syrian military com-
munique said the hostihtie-
began with a 90-minute tank
and artillery duel in the central
sector of the front.
That clash was followed by a
25-minute exchange in the
same area, the Syrians
reported.
The Syrians fired a number
of antitank missiles at an Israeli
patrol in the Tel Marai central
sector and Israeli forces
returned the fire, the Tel Aviv
military command said
The Damascus communique
claimed two Israeli artillery
batteries, an "engineering unit"
probably a crawler tractor
and Israeli military' vehicles
were hit. But neither side
reported casualites.
Algiers radio and the
semiofficial Algierian news-
paper El Moujahid said
meanwhile that Arab
oil-producing countries will
meet March 13 in Tripoli,
Libya, to consider lifting their
oil embargo against the United
State*.
An official of the Egyptian
Oil Ministry in Cairo said
Thursday night, however, that
the ministers have yet to reach
agreement on when and where
A fortune from
the locker room
DETROIT A locker room
attendant at a fashionable club
says he amassed a fortune
worth at least $400,000 by
getting in on some good stock
tips from his wealthy clientele
Louie Boldrim. 57, who has
attended to the needs of the
rich at the exclusive Detroit
Athletic Club since 1937. had
been tight-lipped about his
wealth until last week, when
robbers got to a safe in his
home.
Boldrim at first said the sale
was empty. Later, he admitted
it contained $400,000 in bonds
and securities and $10,000 in
cash.
"I happened to get in on
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'TNTREVILLE DRUG
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some good stocks," he told
suspicious police.
yone is beginning to
think I'm a crook and it's
bothering my health,'' he said
"Everj thin( is declared."
Boldrim. who makes about
$150 a week plus tips as an
attendant at the club's bowling
alley, said he has more money
in hank-; He would nt
what his total worth is.
Police have charged live men
with the robber) al Boldnni's
home.
Boldnni's wife, Naomi, told
police three men wearing ski
masks and nylon stockings over
their heads broke into the
house Thursday night, hound
and gagged her. and threatened
her with a knife When she
refused to open the sate, the)
carted it outside to a cat and
drove awa)
Authorities said they
recovered $5,000 in cash buti
none of the securities. (API
to hold their meeting.
The Israeli newspaper Maarft
said that Washington has
warned Tel Aviv of a possible
Syrian intention to renew
hostilities along the Golan
front.
The Syrian army is in a
"high state of readiness" and
armed with many ground-
to-ground missiles, the paper
added.
The first Israeli reports of a
Syrian buildup were treated
with some scepticism in Israel
Some observers felt the
government used the scare as a
device to settle a bothersome
government crisis. But reports
from the front Thursday
indicated Israeli troops on the
line were taking the fears
seriously.
Israel's new minister of
information. Simon Peres,
was quoted telling the paper
that the "same informants that
warned us on the eve of the
Yom Kippur war" had tipped
Israel off to the new S
move.
It was not clear if Peres
meant that Washington warned
Israel on both these occasions.
"After the lesson we
learned from the Yom Kippur
war we take everything very
seriously now and all question
marks are put aside." Peres was
quoted as saying. (AP)
Incongruous
relations
U.S. SECRETARY of State
Henry Kissinger said there is an
incongruity in America's
relations with Europe that
must be resolved.
He firmly refused, however,
to link the presence of U.S.
troops in Europe to agreements
on oil and other economic
problems with the Europeans.
(AP)
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Meeting jelled after Vesco cash delivery, court told
NEW YORK A U.S. government
witness testified yesterday that hours
after financier Robert Vesco made a
$200,000 cash contribution to
President Nixon's re-election
campaign, then-Attorney General John
Mitchell set up a "very productive"
meeting between Vesco's lawyer and
the head of the Securities and
Exchange Commission (SEC).
Vesco side Harry Sears testified in
United States district court that the
meeting which Vesco had been trying
to arrange for months jelled quickly
once the cash was delivered to former
Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans,
who was then Nixon's re-election
finance chairman.
The jury of eight men and four
women and the packed courtroom
hung on Sears' every word as he
testified for a third day in the criminal
conspiracy trial of former Cabinet
members Mitchell and Stans.
In return for Vesco's contribution,
the government claims. Mitchell and
Stans sought to impede a fraud
investigation of Vesco's far-flung
corporate empire.
Despite the meeting with then-SEC
chairman William Casey and a number
of other high-level conclaves, three
months after the contribution Vesco
was discouraged over his legal battles
with the federal investigators and
ready to appeal to Stans for aid. Sears
said.
When he argued against such a
course of action, Sears testified, Vesco
exploded: "My God. I gave all that
money!"
Sears and Vesco were indicted in
the case along with Mitchell and Stans.
Vesco fled the country and Sears was
given immunity to testify for the
government.
Oil states
want
pro Arab
pledge
LONDON Key Arab
oil-producing states may soon
warn Prime Minister Harold
Wilson that Britain may be
listed as "an unfriendly
country" unless his new
Labour government demon-
strates a pro-Arab attitude
Ranking Labour politicians
and Mideastern diplomats,
who disclosed this Thursday,
said an informal advance
message was sent Wilson at
the weekend before the
Labour leader was installed as
Prime Minister.
And it took the form of a
letter from an ex-ministerial
colleague who wrote it in
consultation with a leading
Mideastern Ambassador here.
Since the Mideast war last
fall Arab oil-producers have
classified foreign countries as
friendly, neutral or
unfriendly according to
their stance in the
Arab-Israeli conflict for
purposes of regulating their
oil supplies.
Friendly countreis have
been able to count on stable
deliveries. Those branded
unfriendly have had their
supplies either limited or
cutoff as in the case of
Holland and the United
States.
The Wilson government has
yet to define in precise detail
its broad approach to the
problems of the Mideast.
In general. it seems
the Wilson administration will
pursue a p !*y of
even-handedness
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MARKET
TAKES
NEW
BLOWS
BRUSSELS The Common
Market's precarious unity
suffered two severe new blows
when Britain demanded
cancellation of a bargaining
session on farm prices and
France broke EEC
by setting its own
milk producers.
The British move
the United Kingd
anti-market Labou
ment, was anticipat
French action was
surprise
French Finance
Valery Giscard d'Est
the Union of Fren
Producers that the b
of their produce w
hiked by six perce
Monday pending a dei
EEC agricultural minis
price levels.
Under Common
rules France has no
make such a dec
unilaterally, and II ( off!
said outright that they
"astonished "
In the midst of t
agricultrue m inistet
difficulties on agreeing new
farm prices, because of
political upheaval in Be'.g.u.n
and Italy as well as Britain,
French fanners have been
demonstrating across the
country to press their
government to take action.
French Prime Minister Pierre
Messmer last month threatened
to block beef imports from
non-market countries. The III
gave him permission to Jo so
Wilson freezes rents,
orders profit cuts
LONDON Britain's r.ew
Labour government froze all
rents today and told
shopkeepers to cut their profits
as part of a drive to cut
skyrocketing inflation.
Environment Secrct.ii>
Anthony Croaland aniuwrjced
next week to balance higher
wholesale prices.
The meeting between the
coininision and representatives
ol leading food firms came as
the state-owned coal, steel and
electricity industries were
ed planning price
s of up to 60 pe. cent
he 16-week
Its "pessimistic" forecast
indicated 1 million
unemployed, a trade deficit ol
$10.9 billion and 18 per cent
overall price increases.
Britain now has around
500,000 fully unemployed, not
counting those who were
temporarily laid off during the
three-day work week thl
at midnight.
A survey conducted in the
industrial .Midlands warned,
meanwhile, that many small
firms would not be able
immediately to return to a
five-day work week.
The survey said many workers
had moved from three da,
firms to industries exempt
pm power-saving restriction)
ring t1 miners' dispute,
i --^^^^^-^,ould now have
be^ks^^ack, the survej
id.(AP)
'Egypt wants oil
embargo lifted'
CAIRO Egypt has asked
Arab oil countries meeting here
Sunday to lift their
five-month-old embargo against
the United States, an Oil
Ministry official said.
Informed sources in Kuwait
said that rich Persian Gulf oil
sheikdom also is ready to drop
the embargo.
The ministers are gathering
lure with the embargo at the
top of their agenda at
I evDt's invitation, officials
said. Their meeting originally
was scheduled for Tripoli
I ibya.
The Egyptian Oil Ministry
official said it was switched to
Cairo because of lack of hotel
space in Tripoli But there was
speculation in some quarters
that the change grew from
Libyan resistance to lifting the
embargo Iraq and the
Palestinian guerilla organiz-
ations also are known to
oppose resumption of
U.S.-bound shipments.
President Anwar Sadat
proposed lifting the embargo in
return for Secretary of State
Henry Kissinger's help in
concluding an agreement to
disengage Egyptian and Israeli
troops along the Suez Canal
front, and for Kissinger's
effort] to arrange a similar
disengagement of Syrian and
Israeli troops on the Golan
Heights
Resumption of shipments to
the United States would help
ease the gasoline shortage that
has resulted in long lines in
front of many American
service stations Authorities say
the embargo is costing the
United States about 10 per
cent of its total daily needs.
President Nixon expressed
optimism at a White House
conference Wednesday night
that U.S. diplomacy in the
Middle Fast inevitably will
influence the Arabs to lift their
embargo.
But he declined to predict
outright that the Arabs will
decide Sunday to resume oil
shipments to the United States,
observing that such a
prediction from him might
"lead them to do otherwise."
there were reports that
Saudi Arabia and several
Persian Gulf states in addition
to Kuwait endorsed the
Egyptian call for an end to the
embargo.
But Saudi Arabia, the largest
Arab oil producer, has been in
the forefront of the campaign
to wield what the Arabs call
their "oil weapon" against
Israel The devoutly Moslem
Saudi ruler. King Faisal, ha- In
past statements insisted that
Israel must pull out of ail Arab
land captured in October and
in the 1967 war, particularly
Arab Jerusalem
The embargo was imposed
after the October Middle East
war as a way to pressure
Washington away from support
of Israel
The Arab oil countries also
cut off shipments to the
Netherlands, regarded along
with the United States as
particularly pro-Israeli
They reduced over-all
production by about IS per
cent in addition to the two
embargoes, spreading an oil
pinch across most of the world
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sent White House guards searching through the
executive mansion Thursday. The search failed
to turn up any bomb
According to one member of the executive
protective service, an anonymous caller
telephoned the main White House switchboard
about midmorning and said a bomb had been
placed inside.
Members of the service searched not only
the press area but other sections of the White
House, looking in closets and under desks and
asking, "seen any strange devices?"
The building was not evacuated, and
President Nixon's daily activities were not
interrupted.
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Nuixius Addictus Jubahe In Vebba Macistri
Being Bound To Swear To The Dogmas Of No Master
LEON E. H. DUPUCH, Publisher/Editor 1903 1914
SIR ETIENNE DUPUCH, O.B.B., K.C.S.C., D.Lill.. LL.D.
Publisher/Editor 191 71972
Contributlnt Editor 1972-
HI I I N III IP, IICARRON.M.Sc..B.A.,LL.B.,
Publisher/Editor 1972 -
Published Daily Monday to Saturday
EDITORIAL
Seven stages of life
H\ I riENNE DUPIH II
In King Lear Shakespeare left us this thought: When we are
horn ween thai mm are come to this peat stage offools.
And in his As You Like It the great bard traces the stages of
growth and development and the final decay of a man from the
cradle of the grave.
All the world's a stage.
And all the men and women merely actors..
They have their entrances and their exits.
A nd each man in his rime plays many parts.
Hts acts being seven ttt
The story opens with a "mewling and puking infant" ... then
the 'whining school boy" ... then the lover, "sighing like a
furnace" ... then a soldier, "full of Strange oaths" ... then the
justice, "in fair round belly lull of wise saws and modern
instances" and "with eyes severe" ... the sixth stage shifts into
"the lean and slipper'd pantaloon", ... and. finally, second
childhood, "sans teeth. sans ej es, sans laste, sans everything ",
It has been truly said "once a man. twice a child".
These ire inescapable stages of life which humble and great
dike, must experience in their steady passage from the cradle to
the grave.
s\s wife and I are now both well advanced in age. We are
fortunate that we are still vigorous in mind and body. But
whenevei I see a man or woman on the street struggling with all
the will and physical power left to them to take one step alter
another... and with bowed head and dimmed eyes... I remind my
wife that one day perhaps soon we will reach that stage of
physical deca)
We both wish to be spared tins last painful experience but we
accept the fact that this is a decision that is beyond our power.
And when we look Into the laces of our grandchildren, their
eyes sparkling with the confidence and the vigour of youth. I
think how kind I v pressed in nature .. is for the easy
i slip from one level of life to
the change.
Sometimes I sil md alone and try to recapture the
memories of im youth, [he memories are full and cleat but the
sense of feeling is gone, nevei to he recaptured. And that is why I
like to see young prop: ring themselves ... with
responsibility o' ause it happens only once.
"The damp of autumn." wrote W. S. Landor. "sink into the
leaves and prepare them for the necessity of their fall; and thus
j insensibly are we. as years close around us. detached from our
5 tenacity of life b) the gentle pressure led sorrow."
Vnd again Shakespeare
VtUSt endure.
Their going hence, even .is their ,, lining hither;
Ripeness is all.
I don't suppose many readers of this column are familiar with
the writing of Joseph Addison (1672-1719).
And. pleas'd th' Almighty S orders tii perform.
Rides in the whirl-wind, and directs the storm.
Addison wrote two essays on life that I read over a half
century ago. They stick in my memory. I will record them both
briefly because they are worth remembering even though I will
deal with only one in ilus discussion.
In his first picture of life he sees the human family groaning
under the burdens and miseries of daily experience.
Addison tells how God in His pity sent an angel to earth with a
great mirror He then had all mankind pass in review before this
mirror which emphasized each man's secret fears and burdens.
The angel then instructed all those who had seen their fears
and faults magnified to cast them aside. They all did ... and it
made a great pile
The angel then instructed each person to take from the pile the
burden he would prelci to Ins own ... and each man went away
with a new burden of Ins own choosing.
A week later the angel returned to earth with his mirroi and
went through the same procedure as on Ins fust visit.
He then told the people to once again cast their burdens aside
... and then to take from the pile again the one thing they felt
suited them most.
They all did ...and when the) went happily awl) 'hoy were all
carrying their Original burden ... having learned thai God gives to
each man only the burden he is mosl suited to bear.
Addison's other story was I he Vision ol Mir/a". In this story
the highway of life is pictured as a great bridge, narrow at its
approaches, wide in the middle and tapered off to a single
pathway on the farther shore.
I his bridge links the beginning ot life with the final scene. A
roaring stream of Watei boils up tindei the bridge and sweeps into
eternity ... the bridge is spotted with ti ip doors which open on to
the rushing waters below
ITw approach to the bridge is crowded with young men and
women eager to get their feet planted on the highway of life that
leads hopefully to the farthei shore where a single star shines on a
land ol fulfilment.
As the crowd of men and women step on the bridge trap doors
open and many disappear quick]) from sight as they fall into the
surging waters below and are swept away to oblivion.
The line thins in the broad middle of the bridge where there
are fewer trap doots but three quarters of the way across the line
becomes tlunnei still. And it tapers off sharply as men continue
to fall through the trap doors, even as happened to Moses
within sight of the Promised I
Finally a single wear) Iravellei reaches the path that leads to
the high goal on the far shore
Then he. in his turn, is finally overtaken by lather Time ... and
'ie dies hopeful!) leaving behind footprints in the sands of time
that might help I" light the was foi I later weary traveller who
seeks the high coal ol life
In this connection Longfellow wrote
/ n es ol great men all remmd us
We can make our toes sublime
And. departing, leave behind us
Footprints in the tends \l time.
Footprints, that perhaps another
Sating O'er life's solemn mam
i rtorn and shipwreck'd brother,
Seeing shall lake heart again
Some gteat men art more fortunate than men in their final
passing. It has been well said that "nature is prodigal of her gifts".
Winston Churchill was the greatest man of this century and one
of the greats of all time but he had a tragic passing. In the end he
decayed into a mere vegetable, illustrating Shakespeare's most
tragic line ... "sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything".
In his book "Winston Churchill, the struggle for survival
1940-65", Churchill's doctor Lord Moran, traced his meteoric rise
to power and fame. ... and his final decay. The decay started with
a slight stroke to the brain which Churchill himself noticed. The
debility spread until, in the end. he was reduced almost to a mere
vegetable.
His friends and admirers were heartbroken. They wished he
could have died on the field of battle with a smoking pistol in his
hand or in one of his most cherished memories when, as a young
man. he wielded a sabre in the last great cavalry charge in history.
Here was a man of stout heart and great mental capacity ... but
in the end his brain went into decay and he became no more than
a shuffling mountain of flesh.
My friend Lord Beaverbrook had a more fortunate passing. He
went as I would like to go.
The last time 1 saw him was in his flat in London. He was
confined to a wheel chair and his face was ashen. He didn't
complain but my wife and I could see that he was in great pain.
We knew when we left him that day that this would be our last
meeting on earth.
His last words to me were a lament ... almost a reprimand ...
when he chided me once again for not seizing power when the
chance came to me after my success in breaking down racial
discrimination in the colony in 1956, at a time when the coloured
people wanted a leader who would take revenge on their former
masters.
I could never make him understand that this was not my role
in life. I neither desired power nor the task of meeting the
demands of an embittered people.
The Beaver lived until the following summer. He retained his
faculties up to the end. He was dictating instructions almost with
his last breath. A letter to me must have been one of his last
efforts.
It was sent to me in Nassau. It finally reached me in Turkey
where 1 was attending an IPI conference.
It was a brief note signed Max in which he said how
fortunate I was to be travelling around the world. He was now an
old man, confined to a wheel chair, attended by a devoted wife.
That letter came to me in the evening mail. When I went to the
book shop in the hotel the following morning newspaper
headlines stared at me from the rack: "Beaverbrook Is Dead". He
was 85.
Later I heard from friends in London the glorious manner of
his exit from this scene.
On the Beaver's 85th birthday Lord Thomson of Fleet gave a
dinner in his honour at the Dorchester Hotel. As the time
approached the Beaver was critically ill. He was a dying man and
it was feared he would be unable to attend the dinner.
A few days before the function he had a machine brought to
his bedside. He would record a speech that could be played back
from his vacant seat at the table. But he was too ill to record a
speech.
He told the nurses to take the dictaphone away ... he said he
had decided to attend the dinner and make the speech there.
On the morning of the day for the dinner he had himself
moved to a room at the Dorchester He sat in a wheel chair in a
room adjoining the dining room.
When the time for the dinner arrived he called to his son. Max,
to take his arm. Summoning all the will power at his command he
rose slowly from the chair and, resting on his son's arm, he
walked the whole length of the large dining room to the place of
honour at the table.
He had his dinner and then rose to make one of the most
brilliant speeches of his career. It was to be his last public-
appearance and he knew it.
In his speech he emphasized that he had served an
apprenticeship here on earth during which he hoped he had
learned lessons that would serve him well in the life beyond the
grave.
At the end of the dinner he took his son's ami and made a
grand exit from the banqueting hall.
He then went back home where the curtain quickly came down
on the life of a remarkable man.
God, what a glorious way for a man to take his exit from this
scene. How I envy him!
Now ... why did I write all this about the lives of individuals'
When I started this article I intended to write about the decay
ot nations as seen in events now taking place in England. But my
mind took its own course and I simply recorded thoughts as they
flowed across my memory.
The same principle that applies to individuals is also true of
families and of nations.
In the case of a family a man or a woman sets a pattern
for his children to follow.
The great misfortune for the children of wealthy or famous
parents is that unless their parents take time to impress on
them that all they inherit is a good name but that each human
being in his or her own time must walk the bridge alone ...
they never get a firm grip on life
In the Vision of Mirza only individuals not families
crossed to the far shore. But a good name gives a young person
entering on life an advantageous start. That's all.
It is impossible to bequeath fame to anyone. More than one
great man has been destroyed because he fell himself capable of
"creating greatness '.Mr. Pindling please note
This caused the downfall of Napoleon Bonaparte. He thought
that every Bonaparte was a Napoleon. And so he made members
of his family rulers of lands he conquered. But there was only one
Napoleon in the Bonaparte family His brothers and sisters were
people of mediocre calibre ... and so his greal achievements
crumbled about his cars
Some of the greatest Marshals of France during the Napoleonic
era were men who had risen from the ranks.
A Marshal Ney had caught my father's imagination. As a child I
often heard him speak of the dashing courage of this great French
military leader.
But of all the dynasties established by Napoleon only one has
survived.
He made one of his Marshals, who had been a Sergeant in the
French army, the king of Sweden. I've forgotten his family name
hut I do remember that he married a charming French girl.
daughter of a silk merchant. The present King of Sweden is
descended from this line started by a man who had been a
Sergeant in the French army but who had the capacity for great
achievement.
Tomorrow I will do the article about the decay of Britain
which we sec daily unfolding before our eyes.
In one of my articles recently I referred to the earthquake that
swallowed up most of Port Royal, capital of Jamaica, that had
the reputation of being the wickedest city in this hemisphere.
I think I spoke of it as having taken place early in the last
century. For purposes of accuracy ... the date was 1692.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY
Flower in the crannied wall.
I pluck you out of the crannies.
I hold you here, root and all. in my hand.
Little flower but if I could understand.
What you are. root and all, and all in all.
I should know what God and man is. ROBERT LOUIS
STEVENSON.
Final '73 building figures show drop
ALTHOUGH more building
applications were approved in
the final quarter of last year
compared to 1972, the
estimated value of building
permits dropped by nearly
S3.5 million
These figures were released
this week by the Ministry of
Works, who said that for New
Providence the total number of
applications approved during
the fourth quarter of 1973 was
737 compared with the figure
of 301 for the corresponding
period in 1972. 367 buildings
were approved in the private
sector of which 317 were for
housing, 50 for commercial
and industrial and a further
five for the public sector
The estimated value of
building permits approved for
the fourth quarter of 1973 was
$6,639,161 compared with
% 10.069.883 for the
corresponding period in 1972.
The estimated value of
buildings approved in the
private sector was $6,460,677
of which S5.295,748 was for
housing. $1,164,929 for
commercial and industrial and
a further $178,484 in the
public sector.
This compares with
B$4.896,605 for housing.
B$1.238,278 for commercial
and industrial and
B$3,935.0OO in the public
sector in 1972.
For the fourth quarter of
1973 construction was started
on 107 buildings compared
with 109 the year before. 107
buildings were started in the
private sector of which 88 were
for housing, 19 for commercial
and industrial and in the public-
sector, nil.
The estimated value of starts
for the fourth quarter of 1973
was B$2.835.226 compared
with B$3.222.244 for 1972.
B$2,835,266 was in the private
sector of which BS2.231,756
was for housing, B$603,470
was for commercial and
industrial and none in the
public sector
This compares with
B$2,010.204 for housing.
BS313,040 for commercial and
industrial and BS899.500 in
the public sector for the
corresponding period of 1972.
For the fourth quarter of
197 3 construction was
completed on __85 buildings
compared with 49 for the
corresponding period of 1972
There were 75 in housing, 10
in respect of commercial and
industrial, but none in the
public sector.
The estimated value of
completions for the fourth
quarter of 1973 was
B$3.4I0,743 compared with
B$3,849,342 the year before.
BS3.410.743 was in the private
sector of which BS2.7
was for housing, BS683.4 10
was for commercial and
industrial and in the public
sector, nil
I his compares with
BS 1.339.822 for housing,
B$2,435.520 for commercial
and industrial and B$74,000 in
the public sector for the
corresponding period of 1972.
IN I REEPORT
In respect of Freeport the
number of applications
approved for the fourth
quarter of 1973 was 14
compared with 16 for the
corresponding period of 1972.
The number of starts during
the fourth quarter of 1973 was
14 compared with 16 and the
estimated value of buildings
started for the fourth quarter
was BS58.O30 compared with
B$3 IS,592 for the
corresponding period of 1972.
The number of buildings
completed for the fourth
quarter of 1973 was 8
MUSIC FESTIVAL
EVENING CONCERT
The Bahamas Music Festival
will present its Final concerts
on Saturday March 16.
The junior concert will begin
at 3:30 p.m. The evening
concert at 8.30 p.m.
Both Concerts will be held
in the Auditorium of the R. M.
Bailey Senior High School.
Robinson Road.
Tickets aie available at The
Cultural Affairs Division.
Ministry ot Education and
Culture. Fast Shirley Street
COOKOUTSATURDAY
IHf Immigration
Department is holding a
cookout on Saturday on the
beach east of Sonesta from
10.30 a.m. onwards. The
cookout is being held in aid
of the South Andros high
school and also to buy an
industrial sewing machine for
the high school at Cat Island.
compared with 9 for 1972, and
their estimated value
BS212.600 compared with
BSI.031,827 for 1972.
In the Family Islands
(Excluding Freeport) the total
number of applications
approved for all Islands was 72
with an estimated value of
BS 1.769.306 for the fourth
quarter of 1973
The total number of
buildings started was 53 with
an estimated value of
B$26.823.140 and the total
number of buildings completed
was 17 with an estimated value
of B$2,943,262 for the fourth
quarter of 1973.
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